Friday, June 24, 2022

This Powerful Pulsar is so Young it Might Still be a Teenager

06/24/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

This powerful pulsar is so young it might still be a teenager
Melissa Weiss, NRAO/AUI/NSF

A distant dwarf galaxy holds what researchers have called a super Crab Nebula neutron star.

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Fire reaches Kitt Peak National Observatory, destroys multiple structures
KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Four non-scientific buildings are lost. And although dozens of telescopes avoided the worst, the astronomical facilities’ damage is yet to be determined.

Astronomers find the fastest nova yet — and it won't stop wobbling
Mark Garlick

This unique system may shed light on how the solar system and the universe at large are seeded by stellar explosions.

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Gravitational-wave observatory amasses discoveries
The Virgo Collaboration/CCO 1.0

With its latest run complete, LIGO heralds a new phase in the exploration of extreme physics.

Ask Astro: What will white dwarfs, neutron stars, and brown dwarfs look like at the ends of their lives?
NASA/JPL-Caltech

The galaxy is littered with cooling compact objects: white dwarfs, neutron stars, and brown dwarfs. What do these look like at the ends of their lives?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
Stephen Rahn

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Airglow lake
Jeff Dai from Sichuan, China

This serene view shows the night sky above Lake Mugecuo at 12,140 feet (3,700 meters) above sea level in Sichuan, China. The strong greenish glow above and reflected in the lake is airglow. This light results from atmospheric chemiluminescence — emission from sodium atoms in a layer approximately 57 miles (92 km) above Earth’s surface.

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