Looking up - 19 June 2020

Published: June 19, 2020, 3:10 p.m.

A host of telescopes and astronomers, including importantly, SALT up in Sutherland, have contributed a little more to our understanding of how a particular class of neutron stars go about their business of sucking the living daylights out of their companion stars. Here Dr David Buckley, and astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory here in Cape Town, describes recent observations.