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Recent Examples of pulsar
While there are some natural short-duration signals, namely fast radio bursts and pulsars, these have other characteristics that single them out.
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IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2021
These effects [known as magnetic braking] lead to the pulsar spinning more slowly as time goes on.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Alonso-Álvarez hopes to test his idea by seeking a signal of self-interacting dark matter in upcoming pulsar timing array data.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
Space is a major source of gamma-rays, with these high energy photons created in various powerful cosmic events like the supernova death of massive stars and objects like the disks of gas and dust that surround feeding supermassive black holes and rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2021
These effects [known as magnetic braking] lead to the pulsar spinning more slowly as time goes on.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Alonso-Álvarez hopes to test his idea by seeking a signal of self-interacting dark matter in upcoming pulsar timing array data.
—Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2024
Space is a major source of gamma-rays, with these high energy photons created in various powerful cosmic events like the supernova death of massive stars and objects like the disks of gas and dust that surround feeding supermassive black holes and rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
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This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Type 1a supernovas are very helpful for scientists, because supernovas tend to explode with roughly the same amount of energy.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Among its findings are the measurements of nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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Radio quasars are the subclass of black holes that produce the most powerful energy and jets.—
David Garofalo,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
27 Sep. 2024
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Young Thug has been teasing Uy Scuti — which takes its name from a red supergiant star 5,900 light years away — for about a month now.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2025
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Per Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a red supergiant star located in the constellation Scutum.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
16 Apr. 2025
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There are simply too many variables to consider, including the genetic influence of does on their male offspring and the role that maturity plays in antler growth.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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Companies isolate variables, split audiences into test and control groups and measure new experiences against existing ones.—
Amit Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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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
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Normally, neutrons are bound within atomic nuclei or in the matter making up extraordinarily powerful stars called neutron stars.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The findings, published in the same issue of Nature, provide additional support that a neutron star created the fast radio burst.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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What's left behind is the raw stellar core — a white dwarf.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Since this star system of a white dwarf (the dense core of a dead star) and a red supergiant (an expanding cooling star) is 3,000 light-years away, whatever is about to happen did so 3,000 years ago.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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