Parkes telescope finds new kind of cosmic object

A team of astronomers from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Canada using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia has found a new kind of cosmic object: small, compressed 'neutron stars' that show no activity most of the time but once in a while spit out a single burst of radio waves. The discovery is published in this week's issue of the journal Nature [16 February 2006].

Added by Helen Sim on 2006-02-16