Pulsars to extremes: Dead spinning stars receive radio signals bursting from the ‘edges of their magnetic reach’
Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning dead neutron stars at the heart of pulsars can emit radio signals from their edges. The finding could overturn decades of thinking that suggested pulsars only blast radiation from near their surface and at their poles. Pulsarslike everyone else neutron starsthey are created when they are big stars run … Read more
