Posts Tagged ‘neutron star’
Gamma rays from pulsar defy explanation
MCGILL U. (CAN) — Astrophysicists have detected pulsed gamma-ray emission from the Crab pulsar at energies far beyond what current theoretical models of pulsars can explain. Continue…
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:34 - 0 Comments
Science & Technology - Aug 18, 2010 13:50 - 2 Comments
How to find a pulsar with your home PC
CORNELL (US)—Three people on two continents have discovered a lone pulsar approximately 17,000 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. And they did it using their home computers. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 9, 2010 10:08 - 0 Comments
Why tin is ‘magic’ for physicists
RUTGERS (US)—In the journal Nature, physicists recently reported studies on tin that add knowledge to a concept known as magic numbers—while perhaps helping scientists to explain how heavy elements are made in exploding stars. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 30, 2009 5:47 - 2 Comments
Race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins
STANFORD (US)—Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA’s orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish may stoke the fires of debate among physicists over Einstein’s special theory of relativity because one of the photons possessed a million times more energy than the other. (more…)
