We've used a new technique to discover the brightest radio pulsar outside our own galaxy

  • Written by: Yuanming Wang, PhD student, University of Sydney
We've used a new technique to discover the brightest radio pulsar outside our own galaxyArtist's impression of the PSR J0523-7125 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Carl Knox, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Author provided

When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts.

Pulsars are the extremely rapidly rotating objects left over after massive stars have exhausted their...

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