{"id":229029,"date":"2026-01-14T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/astronomers-discover-19-new-pulsars-by-analyzing-fast-archival-data"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:12:54","slug":"astronomers-discover-19-new-pulsars-by-analyzing-fast-archival-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/astronomers-discover-19-new-pulsars-by-analyzing-fast-archival-data","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover 19 new pulsars by analyzing FAST archival data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-19-new-pulsars-by-analyzing-fast-archival-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from Nanjing University in China have analyzed the archival data from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), searching for new pulsars. As a result, they detected 19 such objects that were missed by previous studies. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2601.01912\" target=\"_blank\">The findings<\/a> were presented January 5 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation. They are usually identified in the form of short bursts of radio emission; however, some of them are also observed via optical, X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from Nanjing University in China have analyzed the archival data from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), searching for new pulsars. As a result, they detected 19 such objects that were missed by previous studies. The findings were presented January 5 on the pre-print server arXiv. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}