Twinkling, the common term for stellar “scintillation,” refers to tiny, rapid changes in a star’s apparent position, brightness, and color, especially when the star is low in the sky on cold ...

The quirks of light moving through gas are the cause of stellar twinkling, which can be a bane—and sometimes a boon—for ...

Pulsar scintillation gives us unique information ... About 14 million years ago, this part of our galaxy was lit up by stellar explosions that swept up material in the interstellar medium and ...

It is in this connexion that some records of stellar scintillation, that have been made recently with a photo-cell at Dunsink Observatory, and which extend the observed upper frequency-limit of ...

The table-like scintillation detector on the right is among 507 now arrayed across 300 square miles of Utah desert as part of the existing, $25 million Telescope Array cosmic ray observatory ...

Pulsar scintillation gives us unique information ... About 14 million years ago, this part of our galaxy was lit up by stellar explosions that swept up material in the interstellar medium and ...

A pulsar is a neutron star, a super-dense stellar remnant that produces beams of radio waves and an energetic "wind" of particles. The pulsar and its wind move with supersonic speed through the ...

Pulsar scintillation gives us unique information ... About 14 million years ago, this part of our galaxy was lit up by stellar explosions that swept up material in the interstellar medium and ...