"There are now many independent lines of evidence that show the galaxy has actually had a highly dynamic history. Tom's analysis of the larger pulsar timing sample shows directly for the first ...

Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

It also establishes the 2-dimensional galactic plane—the plane in which the majority of our disc-shaped galaxy's mass lies. The 14 pulsar lines also have tick marks, which, based on their ...

There are thousands of them in our galaxy, and they're the densest observable ... And when we see neutron stars in this way, we call them a pulsar." Dr Reardon is a postdoctoral researcher at ...

The Pulsar 'Hand': Captured by NASA's Chandra X ... NGC 4694: This elliptical galaxy, which is nearly devoid of any star formation, is located 54 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo ...

This Hubble image of Messier 2’s core was created using observations taken at visible and infrared wavelengths. This sparkling picture taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of ...

Researchers in Manchester and Germany found it orbiting a millisecond pulsar 40,000 light years away. Millisecond pulsars spin very rapidly - hundreds of times per second. Project lead Ben ...