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Recent Examples of pulsar
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.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
The final confirmation might need to wait until pulsar timing arrays become sensitive enough to detect the gravitational waves coming from PG 1553+153.
—Jonathan Zrake, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
Last year, observations of the subtle movements of pulsating stars known as a pulsar timing array revealed a background hum of gravitational waves in the universe—ripples in the fabric of space-time.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
The final confirmation might need to wait until pulsar timing arrays become sensitive enough to detect the gravitational waves coming from PG 1553+153.
—Jonathan Zrake, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
Last year, observations of the subtle movements of pulsating stars known as a pulsar timing array revealed a background hum of gravitational waves in the universe—ripples in the fabric of space-time.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
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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
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The effect is to make type-Ia supernovas look further away than expected and so appear to be moving faster.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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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
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Measurements of distances to quasars based on radio-interferometric techniques, for instance, are advancing, and there are prospects for using fluctuations in galaxy-surface brightness.—
Marc Kamionkowski,
Scientific American,
15 Oct. 2024
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After carefully analyzing the colors of each of the stars inside the Dragon Arc, the researchers found many are red supergiants, which are stars in their final stages of life.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
6 Jan. 2025
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Because the creatures looked a bit different than other supergiants, some of them were sent to Prof. Peter Ng at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
14 Jan. 2025
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Holidays Holidays are another variable to consider.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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Stevenson explained the 20th century French literary travel philosophy of psychogeography posited that travelling on the same path twice never leads to the same experience because other variables are ever changing.—
Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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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
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Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
8 Mar. 2024
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This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun Astronomers hypothesize that the FRBs could be originating from two supernova remnants, called neutron stars, that are merging or collapsing onto themselves, Shah said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
24 Jan. 2025
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One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the stellar corpse of the bygone star known as a white dwarf, which is seen as the tiny white dot within the nebula, is indeed located at its center.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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The white dwarf could be shedding matter and triggering the pulses observed by the researchers.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Jan. 2025
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However, the existence of a white dwarf is not sufficient for a Type la supernova; the white draft must also be part of a binary star system, in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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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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