pulsar

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Recent Examples of pulsar 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 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 See All Example Sentences for pulsar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
Noun
  • The nebula has been observed shining in radio, X-ray and visible light, as the cloud of stellar material pushed outward by a supernova explosion 10,000 years ago comes into contact with the mass of interstellar gas beyond.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Hubbard could be eased back into action, given that Dowdle has recently gone supernova.
    Andy Behrens, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Found by Hubble before JWST’s launch, GNz7q looked like a mix of a galaxy and a quasar.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • That will be the key variable in this entire season.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Above all, Warrick said, timing remains the biggest variable in determining when and how companies can begin the refunding process.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The full supercluster would have more than 1 million Ascend chips, according to Huawei.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the mass of our sun into a small volume.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • For so many elements to still be visible implies that their accretion onto the white dwarf must have happened relatively recently — within the past 35,000 years.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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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