{"id":10934,"date":"2021-04-21T11:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2021-04-21T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T10:56:35","slug":"radio-telescope-discovers-dense-spinning-neutron-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/radio-telescope-discovers-dense-spinning-neutron-star\/10934\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio telescope discovers dense and spinning neutron star"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pulsars belong to a family of objects called neutron stars, which are a very dense collapsed core of a massive supergiant star, left over after an explosive death.<\/p>\n
The pulsar was detected using the Murchison Widefield Array<\/a> (MWA) telescope, located in remote outback region in Western Australia.<\/p>\n This is the first-time astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research<\/a> (ICRAR) have discovered a pulsar with the MWA. However, they are hopeful the multi-billion-dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, of which the MWA is a precursor telescope, will result in greater discoveries in the future.<\/p>\n Nick Swainston, a PhD student at the Curtin University node of ICRAR, made the discovery while processing data collected as part of an ongoing pulsar survey.<\/p>\n \u201cPulsars are born as a result of supernovae\u2014when a massive star explodes and dies, it can leave behind a collapsed core known as a neutron star,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are about one and a half times the mass of the Sun, but all squeezed within only 20 kilometres, and they have ultra-strong magnetic fields.\u201d<\/p>\n