/newsroom/taxonomy/term/10097/all en /newsroom/channels/news/glitch-neutron-star-reveals-its-hidden-secrets-299380 <p>If parts of the neutron star interior start to move outwards, the star spins faster. This is called a “glitch,” and it’s providing astronomers with a brief insight into what lies within these mysterious objects.</p> Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:29:45 +0000 krysta.veneruz@mail.mcgill.ca 185538 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/hot-jupiter-unusual-winds-284028 <p>The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn’t where astrophysicists expected it to be – a discovery that challenges scientists’ understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside our own.</p> <p><span>Unlike our familiar planet Jupiter, so-called hot Jupiters circle astonishingly close to their host star -- so close that it typically takes fewer than three days to complete an orbit.  And one hemisphere of these planets always faces its host star, while the other faces permanently out into the dark.</span></p> Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:53:02 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 32859 at /newsroom