pulsar

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Recent Examples of pulsar This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024 Researchers can look for gaps and anomalies in the pattern of radio waves emitted from these spinning pulsars to detect gravitational waves. Jonathan Zrake, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024 As more LPTs turned up, pulsars seemed unlikely to be responsible. Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024 This conclusion was reached thanks to new data about the accelerations of nearby pulsars—rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit beams of radiation that sweep out through space light the beacon of a lighthouse. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pulsar
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Noun
  • Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Excitingly, this stellar explosion may be somewhat different from the supernovas that have occurred more recently in the local universe.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
  • But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
  • These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, trying to observe finicky birds in remote habitats full of uncontrollable variables may mean that this particular test would not be resolved anytime soon.
    Jason Bittel, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • For improving mental health, these variables seem to have surprisingly weak effects.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
  • For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With their extremely strong magnetic fields, these neutron stars – small, dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars – are capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy that have been observed for years.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
  • That has led to a focus on compact objects, like neutron stars and black holes—especially a class of neutron stars called magnetars—as likely sources.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • However, if the white dwarf progenitor star exists in a binary with another star, this stellar corpse can begin vampirically stripping material from its companion.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, according to a press release.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • New York has no issue in that regard — second in offensive rating, third in shooting percentage and a binary star averaging more than 50 points per game.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025

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