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Recent Examples of pulsar
Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.
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Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
With the pulsar effectively invisible, the planet’s faint glow could be studied in remarkable detail.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
However, astronomers haven’t been able to observe enough of the pulsars that would be producing the gamma rays to make a conclusive assessment.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
The X-ray data, in purple, shows the hot gas/plasma created by the central pulsar, which is clearly identifiable in both the individual and the composite image.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
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Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
With the pulsar effectively invisible, the planet’s faint glow could be studied in remarkable detail.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
However, astronomers haven’t been able to observe enough of the pulsars that would be producing the gamma rays to make a conclusive assessment.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
The X-ray data, in purple, shows the hot gas/plasma created by the central pulsar, which is clearly identifiable in both the individual and the composite image.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
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In the meantime, McDavid is going to get some questions about his ability to go supernova in big games that have historic importance.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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Following its expulsion, the gas, vapor and soot expanded rapidly into the surrounding atmosphere, forming complex patterns reminiscent of a blooming flower, or a nebula formed in the wake of a supernova explosion in the moment the photograph was taken.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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This quasar existed when the universe was less than 1 billion years old, and its central engine is a supermassive black hole with around 12 billion times the mass of the sun.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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The team spotted the distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole, using observations from the Subaru Telescope.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 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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With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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All three of its contingent stars are huge, hot, blue supergiant stars at vastly different distances from the solar system: Alnitak: 1,260 light-years.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
1 Jan. 2026
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The variable is whether the Bucks will get a high enough pick in June’s draft to convince Antetokounmpo to stick around.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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Bair’s analysis suggests the volume of snow deposited in a single event, driven by the strength of these atmospheric rivers, is a critical variable in avalanche risk — potentially more important than cumulative seasonal snowfall totals.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Feb. 2026
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On even longer timescales, the remnant black holes that were created, whether from stellar explosions, neutron star mergers, a collapsing gas cloud, or having grown into supermassive behemoths, will all evaporate.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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Learning about these highly energized neutrinos could lead to discoveries about where in the universe they might have been created, such as black holes and neutron star collisions — the latter of which are the most powerful classes of explosions in the cosmos.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Finally, its now-inert core contracts down to form a white dwarf, while the prior ejecta get heated up and ionized, creating a planetary nebula.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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His favorites are recurrent novas — binary systems in which a massive white dwarf siphons so much material from its partner that its surface becomes dense enough and hot enough to undergo nuclear fusion, resulting in a dramatic increase in brightness at least twice per century.—
Liz Kruesi,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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