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In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
With the pulsar effectively invisible, the planet’s faint glow could be studied in remarkable detail.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 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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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
With the pulsar effectively invisible, the planet’s faint glow could be studied in remarkable detail.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 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
Noun
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The most massive stars will die in a core-collapse supernova, often within merely a few million years after their birth.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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This image depicts the supernova remnant SN 185, found some 8,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the sun's closest sibling, the triple star Alpha Centauri.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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In the case of this Einstein Cross, the gravitational lens is the galaxy J1453g in near-perfect alignment with Earth and a distant quasar, the active region at the heart of the galaxy, which is powered by a feeding supermassive black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 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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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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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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However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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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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Health was the one controllable variable that was unambiguous.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2026
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Intellectual honesty requires acknowledging the one variable that neither hard nor soft power can fully resolve.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
8 Apr. 2026
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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The solution was to break the problem down, considering each neutron star individually, and its companion as just a source of gravitational tides.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, by using computer simulations, the researchers were able to determine the future of this 3+1 star system, ending up as just two white dwarf stellar remnants.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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