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Neutron stars & pulsars
Neutron stars and pulsars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars: the mass of the Sun packed into a sphere the size of a city. Pulsars, magnetars, fast radio bursts and neutron-star mergers that forge heavy elements.
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JWST Finds Infrared Counterpart of the Rapid Burster in Liller 1
Micro-tidal star disruptions outnumber black hole mergers
Gamma-ray burst might be a thousand times brighter than magnetar flares
Hubble finds the youngest known pulsar companion
Why SN 2023ixf Likely Formed a Neutron Star, Not a Black Hole
IXPE watches a magnetar for 140 hours straight
A shredded star switched X-ray states like a binary
Weekly Digest — July 10, 2026
IXPE Maps Magnetic Field of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar for First Time
IceCube searched for neutrinos from O4a gravitational waves
