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An Eclipsing Binary Millisecond Pulsar Discovered by FAST

Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. Pan Zhichen and Prof. Li Di from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) discovered an eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar in Globular Cluster (GC) Messier 92 (M92). Named PSR J1717+4307A or M92A, it ...

May 1, 2020

Troy Oakes

An image of GC M92 with the pulsar M92A embedded in the dense core.

Everything You Need to Know About the Chinese FAST Telescope

We’ve been staring at the stars and wondering what was up there for centuries. We’ve been using mirrors and prisms to construct telescopes to give us a better idea of what mysteries lie in the black, but we’re still limited in how far we can see. The FAST telescope in China is hoping to change ...

March 6, 2019

Megan Nichols