While space telescopes like James Webb and Hubble make breakthroughs on the regular, sometimes old-school techniques can deliver ground-breaking results of their own. Using a stack of film, some ...

A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the Jellyfish Nebula and what might be an associated pulsar ...

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope has spotted a "clutter" of rapidly spinning neutron stars called spider pulsars that are devouring surrounding stars.

An international team of astronomers has gained new understanding of some of the densest objects in the universe and where ...

Scientists have discovered a pulsar ripping through space at over a million miles per hour. Researchers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to image the source of the pulsar, G292.0+1.8 in ...

Images of J2030 captured in 2020 and 2021 revealed the extraordinary length of the filament, and also showed particles in a cloudlike halo surrounding the pulsar.

Scientists used 12 different telescopes to unravel the mystery of why an unusual pulsar, or rapidly rotating dead star, constantly changes in brightness. CNN values your feedback 1.

This image shows a collection of 25 new space images celebrating the Chandra X-ray Observatory's 25th anniversary. Starting from the upper left, and going across each row, the objects imaged are: Crab ...

As NASA explains in a new blog post, it would take 10 full days for our Sun to release the same amount of energy as the pulsar beams into space in just 20 seconds.

An image of the Carina Nebula, captured on the James Webb Space Telescope, is shown at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez ...