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

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

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

Research intern helps discover new pulsar buried in mountain of data

VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01 from February 27, 2021. The clean beam is shown as a white ellipse in the lower left corner and has dimensions of 5 0 × 4 7 with a position angle of 52°. The cross indicates the central position of GLIMPSE-C01. The dashed white circle shows the core radius … Read more

Chef ‘stood over British intern for 10 minutes after hitting him’

Nick Bril, 40, owner of The Jane in Antwerp, is accused of running over British sous chef Joe Claridge outside the restaurant on January 8 A Michelin-starred Dutch restaurateur is said to have stood by his British sous chef for ten minutes before calling an ambulance after drunkenly running him over twice with his Land … Read more