Topic: neutron star

An XMM-Newton Mosaic of the Galactic Supernova Remnant HESS J1731-347 (Image courtesy of Victor Doroshenko, Gerd Pühlhofer and ESA / XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

Is this the first "strange star"?

Troy Farah
Highly magnetized rotating neutron star (Getty Images/Pitris)

We know more about neutron stars now

Matthew Rozsa

A black hole just ate a neutron star

Nicole Karlis
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

How neutron stars make gold

Keith A. Spencer