Well, here's some very exciting news! I've been wanting to share this for a few months, but had to await the pre-print to drop. A NEW GLITCH EVENT ON A MILLISECOND PULSAR HAS BEEN OBSERVED! These events are extremely rare - only two others since MSPs were discovered. Glitches are more commonly observed in the younger, canonical pulsar population as MSPs are much older and should have sorted out these types of disruptive events over their evolution. That's what makes them so stable! OR ... maybe they're not as stable as we once thought ... This new paper predicts that we should see a glitch per MSP once every 400 years or so. Glitches, profile changes .... as our instruments become more sensitive and datasets expand in time, we're starting to see that MSPs might not be as stable as we once thought ... That's really important! https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/new-glitch-millisecond-pulsar 📸 NASA SVS #SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy #Astrodon #Astrophysics #Science #Pulsars