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X-Ray Oscillations Provide Clues to Neutron Stars

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SAN DIEGO, July 15 -- A gigantic explosion on a neutron star halfway across the Milky Way galaxy, the largest such explosion ever recorded in the universe, should allow astronomers for the first time to probe the interiors of these mysterious stellar objects. An international team of astrophysicists, combing through data from a NASA x-ray satellite, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, reported that the explosion produced vibrations within the star, like a ringing bell, that generated rapid fluctuations in the x-ray radiation it emitted into space. These x-ray pulses, emitted during each seven...Read full article

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    Published: July 2005
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    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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