November 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
The Pulsars "Technology" music video
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November 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Theory allows neutron stars to spin more than 1,000 times per second. Yet after more than 40 years of searching, no such pulsar has ever been found. Where are the sub-millisecond pulsars — and could the way nature makes them explain their absence? go.nature.com/4z9wNH3 🔭
The missing sub-millisecond pulsars
Theory allows neutron stars to spin more than 1,000 times per second. Yet after more than 40 years of searching, no such pulsar has ever been found. Where are the sub-millisecond pulsars — and could t...
go.nature.com
November 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Theory allows neutron stars to spin more than 1,000 times per second. Yet after more than 40 years of searching, no such pulsar has ever been found. Where are the sub-millisecond pulsars — and could the way nature makes them explain their absence? go.nature.com/4z9wNH3 🔭
The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space.
November 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space.
📣 Our Oxford Astrophysics call for PhD (DPhil) students is now open! 📣I’ll be hiring in exoplanets along with several other profs. Topics span observations, instrumentation, and theory. Join us, apply by Jan 6th! www.physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgr...
DPhil in Astrophysics
Astrophysics DPhils (PhDs) can be observational, theoretical or in instrumentation and topics range from cosmology through to exoplanets, galaxies and transients, pulsars and high-energy astrophysics.
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November 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
📣 Our Oxford Astrophysics call for PhD (DPhil) students is now open! 📣I’ll be hiring in exoplanets along with several other profs. Topics span observations, instrumentation, and theory. Join us, apply by Jan 6th! www.physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Pulsars can serve as cosmic, natural, universal timing beacons accessible anywhere in the solar system.
Join @kiss-caltech.bsky.social on Monday, November 16 for the "Cosmic Lighthouse: Navigating Deep Space by the Beat of Pulsars" short course.
Visit: www.kiss.caltech.edu/short-course...
Join @kiss-caltech.bsky.social on Monday, November 16 for the "Cosmic Lighthouse: Navigating Deep Space by the Beat of Pulsars" short course.
Visit: www.kiss.caltech.edu/short-course...
November 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Pulsars can serve as cosmic, natural, universal timing beacons accessible anywhere in the solar system.
Join @kiss-caltech.bsky.social on Monday, November 16 for the "Cosmic Lighthouse: Navigating Deep Space by the Beat of Pulsars" short course.
Visit: www.kiss.caltech.edu/short-course...
Join @kiss-caltech.bsky.social on Monday, November 16 for the "Cosmic Lighthouse: Navigating Deep Space by the Beat of Pulsars" short course.
Visit: www.kiss.caltech.edu/short-course...
I wonder how many people would start a chat about the band Joy Division instead of pulsars 🙃
November 1, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I wonder how many people would start a chat about the band Joy Division instead of pulsars 🙃
We call them spider pulsars because like Earth's arachnids, they are 'eating' (more like ablating) their companions. 🕷️
We have two main types:
Black Widow Pulsars
Redback Pulsars
These are the nastiest of them all.
www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/ne...
📸 NASA/Sonoma State Uni/Aurore Simonnet
We have two main types:
Black Widow Pulsars
Redback Pulsars
These are the nastiest of them all.
www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/ne...
📸 NASA/Sonoma State Uni/Aurore Simonnet
October 30, 2026 at 10:12 PM
We call them spider pulsars because like Earth's arachnids, they are 'eating' (more like ablating) their companions. 🕷️
We have two main types:
Black Widow Pulsars
Redback Pulsars
These are the nastiest of them all.
www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/ne...
📸 NASA/Sonoma State Uni/Aurore Simonnet
We have two main types:
Black Widow Pulsars
Redback Pulsars
These are the nastiest of them all.
www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/ne...
📸 NASA/Sonoma State Uni/Aurore Simonnet
Would often get asked:
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I wanna be an astronomer who looks at pulsars"
Grew up ✅
Became a pulsar astronomer ✅
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I wanna be an astronomer who looks at pulsars"
Grew up ✅
Became a pulsar astronomer ✅
October 30, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Would often get asked:
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I wanna be an astronomer who looks at pulsars"
Grew up ✅
Became a pulsar astronomer ✅
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I wanna be an astronomer who looks at pulsars"
Grew up ✅
Became a pulsar astronomer ✅
In Pulsar Timing Experiments, we use an array of pulsars as a Galactic-scale detector to search for low-frequency gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries.
This is limited to 'localised' binaries (z~2).
Some folks used our data to look further back in time!
📡🔭 #RadioAstronomy
This is limited to 'localised' binaries (z~2).
Some folks used our data to look further back in time!
📡🔭 #RadioAstronomy
Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Constraints on Supermassive Binary Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn
Researchers have used radio observations of rapidly spinning neutron stars to search for signals from supermassive black hole pairs at the dawn of galaxy formation.
journals.aps.org
November 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
In Pulsar Timing Experiments, we use an array of pulsars as a Galactic-scale detector to search for low-frequency gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries.
This is limited to 'localised' binaries (z~2).
Some folks used our data to look further back in time!
📡🔭 #RadioAstronomy
This is limited to 'localised' binaries (z~2).
Some folks used our data to look further back in time!
📡🔭 #RadioAstronomy
Song: Suffocation
Artist: Pulsars
Album: Pulsars (1997)
Label: Tiny Global
Time: 3:53 PM
DJ: Andy F — https://chirpradio.org/djs/andy-f
Artist: Pulsars
Album: Pulsars (1997)
Label: Tiny Global
Time: 3:53 PM
DJ: Andy F — https://chirpradio.org/djs/andy-f
November 2, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Song: Suffocation
Artist: Pulsars
Album: Pulsars (1997)
Label: Tiny Global
Time: 3:53 PM
DJ: Andy F — https://chirpradio.org/djs/andy-f
Artist: Pulsars
Album: Pulsars (1997)
Label: Tiny Global
Time: 3:53 PM
DJ: Andy F — https://chirpradio.org/djs/andy-f
Astronomers have established the first mass limits for supermassive black hole pairs existing in the early universe, challenging current cosmic growth models.
#science #Astronomy #Pulsars
#science #Astronomy #Pulsars
Pulsar Observations Reveal Mass Limits for Early Universe Black Hole Pairs
6ic.com
November 4, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Astronomers have established the first mass limits for supermassive black hole pairs existing in the early universe, challenging current cosmic growth models.
#science #Astronomy #Pulsars
#science #Astronomy #Pulsars
Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars. Her supervisor got the Nobel Prize for it. She was not included.
November 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars. Her supervisor got the Nobel Prize for it. She was not included.
On Photon Propagation in Strong Magnetic Fields: Time Delays from Pulsars
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04965
A. W. Romero Jorge, A. Pérez Martínez, E. Rodríguez Querts, H. Pérez Rojas.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04965
A. W. Romero Jorge, A. Pérez Martínez, E. Rodríguez Querts, H. Pérez Rojas.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04965
arXiv abstract link
arxiv.org
November 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM
On Photon Propagation in Strong Magnetic Fields: Time Delays from Pulsars
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04965
A. W. Romero Jorge, A. Pérez Martínez, E. Rodríguez Querts, H. Pérez Rojas.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04965
A. W. Romero Jorge, A. Pérez Martínez, E. Rodríguez Querts, H. Pérez Rojas.
It’s amazing (& wonderful) to me how shocked students are today when I relate the story of the discovery of pulsars & Dame Prof. Bell-Burnell’s exclusion from the Nobel. Even for students well aware of the reality of misogyny in our societies, they’re floored by what happened.
The kids are alright.
The kids are alright.
Great to see that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell is still being recognised and awarded for changing our view of the Universe!
🔭🧪 #RadioAstronomy #WomenInSTEM
🔭🧪 #RadioAstronomy #WomenInSTEM
UCD celebrates pioneering astrophysicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell with Ulysses Medal
www.ucd.ie
October 31, 2026 at 2:28 PM
It’s amazing (& wonderful) to me how shocked students are today when I relate the story of the discovery of pulsars & Dame Prof. Bell-Burnell’s exclusion from the Nobel. Even for students well aware of the reality of misogyny in our societies, they’re floored by what happened.
The kids are alright.
The kids are alright.
Apologies: Prof. Bell-Burnell was a graduate student when she discovered pulsars
That is still incredible
That is still incredible
October 31, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Apologies: Prof. Bell-Burnell was a graduate student when she discovered pulsars
That is still incredible
That is still incredible
K. Liu, et al.: High precision timing of seven binary millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07363 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.07363 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.07363
November 6, 2026 at 6:51 AM
K. Liu, et al.: High precision timing of seven binary millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07363 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.07363 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.07363
High precision timing of seven binary millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array. K. Liu et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07363
November 6, 2026 at 7:27 AM
High precision timing of seven binary millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array. K. Liu et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07363
On Photon Propagation in Strong Magnetic Fields: Time Delays from Pulsars. A. W. Romero Jorge et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04965
November 5, 2026 at 2:06 AM
On Photon Propagation in Strong Magnetic Fields: Time Delays from Pulsars. A. W. Romero Jorge et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.04965
Living around a pulsar would def. be scary for anyone not wearing SBF 3 million+ sunblock.
Pulsars emit a lot of high-energy radiation, so they would destroy atmospheres quickly.
They also blast out the powerful pulsar wind, which literally shreds their companions.
📸 NASA SVS
Pulsars emit a lot of high-energy radiation, so they would destroy atmospheres quickly.
They also blast out the powerful pulsar wind, which literally shreds their companions.
📸 NASA SVS
October 30, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Living around a pulsar would def. be scary for anyone not wearing SBF 3 million+ sunblock.
Pulsars emit a lot of high-energy radiation, so they would destroy atmospheres quickly.
They also blast out the powerful pulsar wind, which literally shreds their companions.
📸 NASA SVS
Pulsars emit a lot of high-energy radiation, so they would destroy atmospheres quickly.
They also blast out the powerful pulsar wind, which literally shreds their companions.
📸 NASA SVS
🌟 Stellar cannibalism is wild! Cosmic feast where star slowly eats brown dwarf companion over billions of years (MIT). Black Widow pulsars spin hundreds/sec, devouring their mates! 🕷️✨ #Astronomy #SpaceScience
November 6, 2026 at 4:51 AM
🌟 Stellar cannibalism is wild! Cosmic feast where star slowly eats brown dwarf companion over billions of years (MIT). Black Widow pulsars spin hundreds/sec, devouring their mates! 🕷️✨ #Astronomy #SpaceScience
Based on the rarity of pulsars, it sounds a lot like how the first exoplanets were found around them. I think this analogy could go far lol
October 31, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Based on the rarity of pulsars, it sounds a lot like how the first exoplanets were found around them. I think this analogy could go far lol
But, thankfully, pulsar planets are rare -- only a handful of pulsar planets are known to date.
We think this is because formation scenarios are rare and survival rates are low.
But we don't have firm answers yet.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
We think this is because formation scenarios are rare and survival rates are low.
But we don't have firm answers yet.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
A search for planetary companions around 800 pulsars from the Jodrell Bank pulsar timing programme
ABSTRACT. We have searched for planetary companions around 800 pulsars monitored at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, with both circular and eccentric orbits o
academic.oup.com
October 30, 2026 at 10:34 PM
But, thankfully, pulsar planets are rare -- only a handful of pulsar planets are known to date.
We think this is because formation scenarios are rare and survival rates are low.
But we don't have firm answers yet.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
We think this is because formation scenarios are rare and survival rates are low.
But we don't have firm answers yet.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Whether it's legends like Jimmy Page and David Coverdale joining forces, or brothers like the Pulsars making edgier fare, these pairs made one great album.
The 5 Best One-Album Duos Of All Time - Grunge
www.grunge.com
November 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Whether it's legends like Jimmy Page and David Coverdale joining forces, or brothers like the Pulsars making edgier fare, these pairs made one great album.
Using Parkes Observatory data, researchers place the first direct limits on supermassive binary black holes at the cosmic dawn — establishing a practical framework for studying the evolution and formation of early-universe black holes.
Learn more: https://go.aps.org/4z1o4WG
Learn more: https://go.aps.org/4z1o4WG
November 4, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Using Parkes Observatory data, researchers place the first direct limits on supermassive binary black holes at the cosmic dawn — establishing a practical framework for studying the evolution and formation of early-universe black holes.
Learn more: https://go.aps.org/4z1o4WG
Learn more: https://go.aps.org/4z1o4WG