{"id":4198,"date":"2022-05-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2022-05-05T06:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T06:05:30","slug":"weve-used-a-new-technique-to-discover-the-brightest-radio-pulsar-outside-our-own-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/weve-used-a-new-technique-to-discover-the-brightest-radio-pulsar-outside-our-own-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve used a new technique to discover the brightest radio pulsar outside our own galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Artist\u2019s impression of the PSR J0523-7125 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.\n Carl Knox, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)<\/span>, Author provided<\/span><\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\nYuanming Wang<\/a>, University of Sydney<\/a><\/em>; David Kaplan<\/a>, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<\/a><\/em>, and Tara Murphy<\/a>, University of Sydney<\/a><\/em><\/span>\n\n

When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts. <\/p>\n\n

Pulsars are the extremely rapidly rotating objects left over after massive stars have exhausted their fuel supply. They are extremely dense, with a mass similar to the Sun crammed into a region the size of Sydney. <\/p>\n\n

Pulsars emit beams of radio waves from their poles. As those beams sweep across Earth, we can detect rapid pulses as often as hundreds of times per second. With this knowledge, scientists are always on the lookout for new pulsars within and outside our Milky Way galaxy.<\/p>\n\n

In research published today in the Astrophysical Journal<\/a>, we detail our findings on the most luminous radio pulsar ever discovered outside the Milky Way.<\/p>\n\n

This pulsar, named PSR J0523-7125, is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud \u2013 one of our closest neighbouring galaxies \u2013 and is more than ten times brighter than all other radio pulsars outside the Milky Way. It may be even brighter than those within it.<\/p>\n\n

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