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Fast-Spinning ‘Extreme’ Neutron Star Discovered by US Navy Intern

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On the left a purple sphere with arcs of blue emerging from and connecting at its poles next to a blue square with dark dots a white cross at its center and a green blob at the edge of a dotted white line within it

Amaris McCarver, an intern at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Remote Sensing Division, and a team of astronomers have discovered a rapidly spinning neutron star that is beaming radiation across the universe like a cosmic lighthouse. The rapidly spinning neutron star, or “pulsar,” is located in the dense star cluster Glimpse-CO1, which lies in … Read more

Fast-Spinning ‘Extreme’ Neutron Star Discovered by US Navy Intern

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Amaris McCarver, an intern at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Remote Sensing Division, and a team of astronomers have discovered a rapidly spinning neutron star that is beaming radiation across the universe like a cosmic lighthouse. The rapidly spinning neutron star, or “pulsar,” is located in the dense star cluster Glimpse-CO1, which lies in … Read more