Near the surface there's gnocchi, which are round bubble-like neutrons. Go a bit deeper, and the pressure forces neutrons into long tubes called spaghetti. Go further down, and you have sheets of ...

In the vastness of the known universe, few things are more wondrous than a magnetar. These stars are deceptively pint-sized; they squeeze multiple suns’ worth of mass into an orb no bigger than a city ...

Astronomers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) and CSIRO have just observed bizarre, never-seen-before behaviour from a ‘radio-loud’ magnetar–a rare type of ...

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Some of the strongest explosions that occur in the universe are gamma-ray bursts. They're quick, incredibly powerful and happen about once a day as the light from some distant cataclysm reaches us, ...

HD 45166 is believed to have the strongest magnetic field ever found in a massive star. Credit: ESO / L. Calçada illustration Astronomers have been studying a weird old star in deep space that is ...