pulsar

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Recent Examples on the Web But unlike a pulsar, those bursts were separated by over 20 minutes. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024 The first sign of gravitational waves: binary pulsars Most people recall that the first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced in 2016: just eight years ago, or more than a full century after Einstein’s general relativity was first unleashed on the world. Big Think, 21 June 2024 How pulsars pulse Contrary to the section heading, pulsars don't actually pulse. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024 In 1967, Wheeler attended a discussion of the astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell’s recent discovery of pulsars—celestial objects that flash out radiation. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pulsar 
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Noun
  • Recent research by Chamba and colleagues has also shed light on the role that supernovas might play in the dispersion of gas within a galaxy — where 'stellar feedback' can influence the inflows and outflows of gas in a galaxy which either supports or negates star formation.
    Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
  • But according to Freedman, the galaxies’ supernovas seemed to be intrinsically brighter than the ones in farther galaxies.
    Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Or at least a lot like quasars from more recent periods in the Universe's history.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 June 2024
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the week ends with an opportunity to observe a super-slim crescent moon, re-emerging from the sun's glare, alongside the red supergiant star Antares after sunset.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Betelgeuse Known as the celestial hunter Orion’s shoulder, the red supergiant Betelgeuse is one of the most recognizable stars in the sky.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Finally, The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index (NAI), a comprehensive index composed of 85 national variables, showed up as -0.28 in September, negative now for four months in a row.
    Robert Barone, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Any variable would have led to very different results.
    Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • For example, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • These systems are made up of the black hole and a secondary object like a star, much denser neutron star, or another black hole.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There are even proposals to use gravitational-wave signals from merging black holes and neutron stars.
    Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The nova, also referred to as a thermonuclear explosion, occurs when enough material from the red giant builds up in the white dwarf to power a bright outburst.
    Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
  • During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.
    Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024

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