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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:59:58 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Pulsar Planets: Strange Worlds Orbiting Undead Stars</title>
			<description><![CDATA[As we start to discover &quot;Earth-like&quot; planets elsewhere in the galaxy, it&#039;s easy to forget that the first exoplanets discovered were orbiting a pulsar -- and weren&#039;t very Earth-like at all. Continue reading →]]></description>
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			<author>Markus Hammonds</author>						<category>Pulsars</category>
						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Exoplanets</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Alien Life &amp; Exoplanets</category>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:48:07 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Pulsar Planets: Strange Worlds Orbiting Undead Stars</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[As we start to discover &quot;Earth-like&quot; planets elsewhere in the galaxy, it&#039;s easy to forget that the first exoplanets discovered were orbiting a pulsar -- and weren&#039;t very Earth-like at all. Continue reading →]]></media:description>
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			<title>&#039;Black Widow&#039; Pulsar Is Fastest Star Killer</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A neutron star has been discovered orbiting its binary partner every 93 minutes -- a record.]]></description>
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			<author>Irene Klotz</author>						<category>Astrophysics</category>
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						<category>Pulsars</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Space Technology</category>
						<category>Stars</category>
						<category>Stellar Phenomena</category>
						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
			
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:07:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">&#039;Black Widow&#039; Pulsar Is Fastest Star Killer</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[A neutron star has been discovered orbiting its binary partner every 93 minutes -- a record.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Alien Life May Live in Various Habitable Zones</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The &quot;classic&quot; habitable zone is defined as the location around a star where a planet can sustain liquid water -- but this may not be the only life-supporting substance. Is there more than one habitable zone?]]></description>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>alien life</category>
						<category>Evolution</category>
						<category>Extrasolar Planets</category>
						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Titan (moon)</category>
			
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:16:34 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Alien Life May Live in Various Habitable Zones</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The &quot;classic&quot; habitable zone is defined as the location around a star where a planet can sustain liquid water -- but this may not be the only life-supporting substance. Is there more than one habitable zone?]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Can Neutron Stars Crush Neutrons into Cubes?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Inside the most massive neutron stars, matter may take on a more-exotic-than-usual quantum characteristic.]]></description>
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			<author>Ian O&#039;Neill</author>						<category>Astrophysics</category>
						<category>Black Hole</category>
						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Physics</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Supernova</category>
			
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:16:33 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Can Neutron Stars Crush Neutrons into Cubes?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Inside the most massive neutron stars, matter may take on a more-exotic-than-usual quantum characteristic.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>How to Build a Neutron Star</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Scientists can probe the conditions just after the Big Bang. They can detonate a supernova in a test tube. They can even study black holes. What about neutron stars?]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/how-to-build-a-neutron-star-at-home.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Ian O&#039;Neill</author>						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Particle Physics</category>
						<category>Particles</category>
						<category>Physics</category>
						<category>Quantum Physics</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>String Theory</category>
			
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:49:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">How to Build a Neutron Star</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Scientists can probe the conditions just after the Big Bang. They can detonate a supernova in a test tube. They can even study black holes. What about neutron stars?]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Closing in on Gravitational Waves</title>
			<description><![CDATA[As the hunt for gravitational waves intensifies, a graduate student has an idea as to where the gravitational wave detectors should be looking.]]></description>
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			<author>Jennifer Ouellette</author>						<category>Black Hole</category>
						<category>Cosmology</category>
						<category>Laboratories</category>
						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Space</category>
			
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:08:32 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Closing in on Gravitational Waves</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[As the hunt for gravitational waves intensifies, a graduate student has an idea as to where the gravitational wave detectors should be looking.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Why Does a Star Explode?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Nothing lights up the cosmos like a supernova. But why does a star explode to begin with?]]></description>
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			<author>Robert Lamb</author>						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Space</category>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:36:56 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Why Does a Star Explode?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Nothing lights up the cosmos like a supernova. But why does a star explode to begin with?]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>X-Ray Pulsar Eclipse Reveals Neutron Star&#039;s Secrets</title>
			<description><![CDATA[What&#039;s in a neutron star? Well, neutrons, obviously. However, despite the deceptively simple label, the inner workings of neutron stars remain elusive. But that could soon change.]]></description>
			<link>http://news.discovery.com/space/whats-in-a-neutron-star-well-neutrons-obviously-however-despite-the-deceptively-simple-label-the-inner-workings-of-neut.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1</link>
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			<author>Nicole Gugliucci</author>						<category>Astrophysics</category>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:32:07 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">X-Ray Pulsar Eclipse Reveals Neutron Star&#039;s Secrets</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[What&#039;s in a neutron star? Well, neutrons, obviously. However, despite the deceptively simple label, the inner workings of neutron stars remain elusive. But that could soon change.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Shedding New Light on a Pulsar Mystery</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The fledgling Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is teaming up with other radio telescopes to probe the beams of intense radiation emitted by pulsars, potentially answering the mystery as to how they are generated.]]></description>
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			<author>Nicole Gugliucci</author>						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Pulsars</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Stellar Phenomena</category>
						<category>Stellar Physics</category>
			
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:39:20 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Shedding New Light on a Pulsar Mystery</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[The fledgling Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is teaming up with other radio telescopes to probe the beams of intense radiation emitted by pulsars, potentially answering the mystery as to how they are generated.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>The Neutron Star Cooling Mystery</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A cooling neutron star has been probed in the hope of understanding its interior. However, using data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope, researchers have returned more questions than answers.]]></description>
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			<author>Nicole Gugliucci</author>						<category>Astrophysics</category>
						<category>Chandra X-Ray Observatory</category>
						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">The Neutron Star Cooling Mystery</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[A cooling neutron star has been probed in the hope of understanding its interior. However, using data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope, researchers have returned more questions than answers.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Exotic &#039;Electroweak&#039; Star Predicted</title>
			<description><![CDATA[When a star dies, depending on its mass, it will form a white dwarf, neutron star or a black hole. Or will it? Perhaps there&#039;s an intermediate &quot;electroweak&quot; phase that may save the remnant from black hole doom.]]></description>
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			<author>Ian O&#039;Neill</author>						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Space</category>
						<category>Standard Model</category>
						<category>Stars</category>
						<category>Stellar Phenomena</category>
						<category>Stellar Physics</category>
			
			<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:16:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Exotic &#039;Electroweak&#039; Star Predicted</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[When a star dies, depending on its mass, it will form a white dwarf, neutron star or a black hole. Or will it? Perhaps there&#039;s an intermediate &quot;electroweak&quot; phase that may save the remnant from black hole doom.]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Why Are Quark Stars So Strange?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[What happens if a stellar remnant is too massive to be a neutron star, but not massive enough to become a black hole? Actually, until recently, astrophysicists didn&#039;t think there was a grey area between neutron stars and black holes; stellar remnants from a massive star&#039;s death had to be one or the other. Now, [...]]]></description>
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			<author>Ian O&#039;Neill</author>						<category>Astrophysics</category>
						<category>Big Bang</category>
						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
						<category>Particle Physics</category>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:40:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Why Are Quark Stars So Strange?</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[What happens if a stellar remnant is too massive to be a neutron star, but not massive enough to become a black hole? Actually, until recently, astrophysicists didn&#039;t think there was a grey area between neutron stars and black holes; stellar remnants from a massive star&#039;s death had to be one or the other. Now, [...]]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Shimmer Me This</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Back in September, a fascinating paper appeared on the arXiv about a new way to search for gravitational waves. It&#039;s called the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), and it relies on how pulsars stretch and squeeze as gravitational waves wash over them -- basically, they should &quot;shimmer&quot; a tiny bit, and scientists [...]]]></description>
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			<author>Jennifer Ouellette</author>						<category>Astrophysics</category>
						<category>Laboratories</category>
						<category>Neutron Stars</category>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Shimmer Me This</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Back in September, a fascinating paper appeared on the arXiv about a new way to search for gravitational waves. It&#039;s called the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), and it relies on how pulsars stretch and squeeze as gravitational waves wash over them -- basically, they should &quot;shimmer&quot; a tiny bit, and scientists [...]]]></media:description>
			
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			<title>Journey to the Center of the Galaxy</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Because of increasing light pollution, the most spectacular structure in the sky is seen by fewer and fewer people these days - the Milky Way. During the summer months you are in fact peering in the direction of the downtown hub of our pinwheel galaxy. The central region straddles the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius that [...]]]></description>
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			<author>Ray Villard</author>						<category>Black Hole</category>
						<category>Chandra X-Ray Observatory</category>
						<category>Hubble Telescope</category>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:29:22 -0500</pubDate>
			<media:title type="html">Journey to the Center of the Galaxy</media:title>
			<media:description type="html"><![CDATA[Because of increasing light pollution, the most spectacular structure in the sky is seen by fewer and fewer people these days - the Milky Way. During the summer months you are in fact peering in the direction of the downtown hub of our pinwheel galaxy. The central region straddles the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius that [...]]]></media:description>
			
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