pulsars

In 1967, graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected CP 1919 — the first pulsar. The discovery confirmed neutron stars exist and sparked the most debated Nobel Prize omission in physics history.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars in 1967 as a PhD student. Her Nobel Prize snub became science's most debated injustice. Here is the full story.

Neutron-star interiors remain uncertain. X-ray observations and mergers let researchers test dense-matter models and investigate heavy-element production.

NASA's Fermi telescope mapped the gamma-ray universe, revealing pulsars, black holes, and mysterious transient events at highest photon energies.

Neutron stars pack more mass than the Sun into a sphere about the size of a city. This guide covers how they form, what lies inside them, how heavy they can get, and why pulsars, magnetars and neutron star mergers matter to physics.