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Recent Examples of pulsar
With the pulsar effectively invisible, the planet’s faint glow could be studied in remarkable detail.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 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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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 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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When this final collapse happens, shockwaves ripple out to the star's outer layers, which are blown away in a supernova explosion, taking with them the vast majority of the star's mass.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Bad Bunny has worked with soccer supernova Lionel Messi.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
4 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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Imagine a distant light source, like a quasar, that sends light traveling for billions of light-years.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Dec. 2025
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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 change in variable, that of international student enrollment, means the university has gone from a student body of over 9,000 students to now slightly above 6,000 students over the past two years.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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But which variable is most impactful, the wind speed or air temperature?—
Jeff Wagner,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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The fact that these events are responsible for the creation of some of our most precious and important elements, as well as bright cosmic phenomena like GRBs and kilonovas, means there has been a heavy bias toward studying the aftereffects of neutron star mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The culprit was a magnetar, a super-magnetized neutron star located about 50,000 light-years away.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 2026
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Procyon's white dwarf companion was not found until 1896 at the Lick Observatory in California.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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To understand a nova, first understand a white dwarf.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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