Wednesday 10 February 2021

No little green men on new star

 


Image courtesy of B. Knispel / C.J. Clark / Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics / NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, fair use doctrine.


Joel Kontinen

The mystery at the heart of an unexplained, bright point of gamma-ray light in the sky has been solved: There's a deadly spider star flaying a second, wimpier star to bits, sending out rapid-fire bursts of gamma radiation in the process.

The fastest-spinning among them are millisecond pulsars. When a millisecond pulsar is locked in a rare, tight orbit with a lightweight star, it slowly shreds its partner to bits with each rotation. These binary cannibals are known as black widow or redback stars. Now, with the help of citizen scientists, a team of researchers has revealed a new redback at the heart of a bright system known as PSR J2039–5617.

It is lonely in the universe.

Space signals tend to be false alarms. Not even the infamous wow-signal was probably cause by a comet, not aliens

New Scientist has said that aliens are more likely than God..

But only if we a priori rule out the God who in the beginning created everything.

Life cannot create itself.

Source:

Letzter,- Rafi. 2021.  Mystery of gamma radiation solved: Hidden cannibal star is just having dinner. Live Science 8 February.