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Recent Examples of pulsar
Radio pulsars, by comparison, produce much shorter signals — often mere seconds.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Previously, radio observatories searched the sky for new pulsars but rarely lingered long enough to pick up slower signals.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
Luckily for scientists, this rapid spin and its precise frequency make pulsars excellent timing mechanisms.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Among other things, it is expected to be able to hunt for the universe’s first stars, search for signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence, and enable the detection of new pulsars—the spinning remnants of dead stars—in our galaxy and others.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2016
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Previously, radio observatories searched the sky for new pulsars but rarely lingered long enough to pick up slower signals.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
Luckily for scientists, this rapid spin and its precise frequency make pulsars excellent timing mechanisms.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Among other things, it is expected to be able to hunt for the universe’s first stars, search for signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence, and enable the detection of new pulsars—the spinning remnants of dead stars—in our galaxy and others.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
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Learning about their diversity could help astronomers compare these supernovas with one another, refining our understanding of dark energy.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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The Doctor used the Vindicator, now a part of the Palace clock, to blast Omega with the power of a billion supernovas, forcing him back into his cage.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
31 May 2025
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The leading candidates included massive galaxies, quasars powered by black holes, and small, low-mass galaxies.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
19 June 2025
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As such, quasars are among the most powerful beacons astronomers can use to probe distant regions of the universe.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
18 June 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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The red supergiant star Antares will be visible in the night sky on June 10 or 11.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
5 June 2025
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Red Supergiant Stars Many of the stars in the Dragon Arc are red supergiants, similar to Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion and Aldebaran in Taurus, both of which are visible now in the eastern night sky immediately after sunset.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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In the real world, however, those variables are deeply entangled.—
John Walkup,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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Another variable to consider is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC.—
Jesse Pound,
CNBC,
13 June 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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The complete gravitational collapse that results creates either a neutron star or a black hole, and also sends out a blast of energy and high-speed particles that can traverse star systems and entire galaxies in some cases.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 June 2025
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For Córdova, that path began with a moment of astonishment: watching a television program about neutron stars as a young woman, she was struck by the immensity of the cosmos and felt the pull of a question that would guide her for a lifetime — how does the universe work?—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Crucially, the white dwarf is not destroyed, and the 80-year-long process begins again.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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The object could be a white dwarf—an Earth-sized husk that remains after a star has exhausted its nuclear fuel.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
30 May 2025
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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