Fireworks are likely dying down in your neighborhood as New Year's celebrations draw to a close. However, for neutron stars, which are dead stars that spin so fast they can celebrate an Earth New Year around twice a second, the cosmic fireworks may aptly never end.
New research suggests that the celestial fireworks displays generated in highly magnetic environments close to some neutron stars could account for rapid and mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (FRBs).
