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Recent Examples of pulsar
Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.
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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
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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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
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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The observation of this event, triggered by the death of a massive star, confirms the link between the creation of magnetars and super-bright supernova explosions.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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While the supernova’s brightness peaked at around Day 50, astronomers noticed something strange.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
11 Mar. 2026
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This region is referred to as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), and its bright emissions are seen on Earth as a quasar.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 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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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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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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But fair board members have repeatedly mentioned the master planning process for the fairgrounds, which is just getting started, as the main variable in making their decision.—
Luke Harold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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But Morgan Stanley was explicit that duration is the key variable.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 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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When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 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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Finally, its now-inert core contracts down to form a white dwarf, while the prior ejecta get heated up and ionized, creating a planetary nebula.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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