Articles for tag: Astronomy, astrophysics, NeutronStar, VariableStar

a butterfly shaped object in the middle of a star filled sky

The Star That Flickers Like a Cosmic Lighthouse

Suhail Ahmed

  It starts as a whisper in the static: a heartbeat-like tick that refuses to be random, carving rhythm into the radio noise of the sky. Astronomers have learned that these pulses come from city-sized neutron stars spinning hundreds of times a second, sweeping beams across space like searchlights on cosmic fog. The mystery has ...