With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./F. Yusef-Zadeh et al; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKat; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk ...

Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering ...

The scintillation arcs also gave us the velocities of the plasma layers. Far from being as expected, we discovered that one ...

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of ...

This was surprising because the pulsar – like our own Solar System – is located in a relatively quiet region of our galaxy called the Local Bubble. About 14 million years ago, this part of our ...

A team led by Australian scientists has used a scintillating pulsar to perform a CT scan of the interstellar medium in our galaxy, mapping previously unseen layers of plasma, including within a ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar ... up by energetic events in the galaxy. The study, published in ...

It's one of the first things any of us learn about astronomy – stars twinkle while planets don't. However, other point-like objects in the radio sky ...