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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.
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Instead of the familiar pulsing heartbeat of a typical pulsar, this source emitted a steady radio signal, unusually compact and highly polarized.
—New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
Christiansen presents and writes on topics ranging from reconciling her love for art and science to her quest to learn more about the pulsar chart on the cover of Joy Division's album Unknown Pleasures.
—Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
Radio signals from space are not an uncommon occurrence; in fact, telescopes pick up signals all the time coming from pulsars, black holes, massive galaxies, stars and various other cosmic phenomena.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Instead of the familiar pulsing heartbeat of a typical pulsar, this source emitted a steady radio signal, unusually compact and highly polarized.
—New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
Christiansen presents and writes on topics ranging from reconciling her love for art and science to her quest to learn more about the pulsar chart on the cover of Joy Division's album Unknown Pleasures.
—Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
Radio signals from space are not an uncommon occurrence; in fact, telescopes pick up signals all the time coming from pulsars, black holes, massive galaxies, stars and various other cosmic phenomena.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
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By the time Chappell Roan fended off Sabrina Carpenter to snag her first-ever Grammy, both had gone supernova.—
Lori Majewski,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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One is an unusual type of supernova explosion that lasted much longer than those that typically release gamma rays, Levan said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Additionally, this quasar is also producing jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light, a rare feature among quasars.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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In the late 1960s astronomers started to make extremely high-resolution observations of distant galaxies called quasars.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
29 Aug. 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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The album title is a reference to a red supergiant star 10,000 light-years away from Earth.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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Skywatchers on Saturday night will be treated to the gorgeous sight of a waxing crescent moon close to Antares, an unmistakably bright red supergiant star shining in the south.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Change one variable slightly in the defensive pattern, and Barnes can give you an entirely different solution.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Suffice it to say, a double-big look with Valanciunas is another variable that could make the Nuggets immensely watchable.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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The full supercluster would have more than 1 million Ascend chips, according to Huawei.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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The chips designed by Huawei serve as the basis of the company’s AI infrastructure, in which a supercluster is connected to multiple superpods.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
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This theoretical limit concerns how much matter can be accreted to a compact body like a neutron star or black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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Next up, the team hopes to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study the white dwarf and the exo-Pluto in infrared light.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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