The starburst-like diagram is called a pulsar map, because it shows the location of our sun relative to known pulsars. Pulsars are the rapidly spinning remains of dying stars—the leftover cores ...
T he nearest millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 has a radius of 11.4 kilometers and a mass 1.4 times that of the sun. These are the results of precision measurements made by a team of researchers ...
The PULSAR research project, led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, has unveiled the conceptual design of a plutonium-238 ...