Tagged: Pulsar

You would not be wrong if you thought that a “pulsar” sounds like a great addition to your weekend rave. (You live in 1995.) A pulsar does kind of resemble a big, galactic strobe light and — with its steady rhythm — it could even...

Fifty years ago this month, a small group of astronomers made a revolutionary cosmic discovery — explaining a phenomenon that they initially thought might come from an intelligent alien civilization. In November 1967, Jocelyn Bell (now Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell), a graduate student at Cambridge...

You would not be wrong if you thought that a “pulsar” sounds like a great addition to your weekend rave. (You live in 1995.) A pulsar does kind of resemble a big, galactic strobe light and — with its steady rhythm — it could even...

“Heavenly Eye” also known as “The Eye of Heaven” is China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, which began its work one year ago. Now, FAST (the size of about 30 football fields) has identified several pulsars, according to...