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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.
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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
But pulsars flash much faster than ASKAP J1832 does, on the order of milliseconds to seconds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 May 2025
Data from those dishes will be combined to study a range of targets, including pulsars and radio emissions from hydrogen that sits relatively close to our own Milky Way galaxy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2017
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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
But pulsars flash much faster than ASKAP J1832 does, on the order of milliseconds to seconds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 May 2025
Data from those dishes will be combined to study a range of targets, including pulsars and radio emissions from hydrogen that sits relatively close to our own Milky Way galaxy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
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The Lynx play with unshakable swagger and intense focus, from supernova Collier to sharpshooting Kayla McBride to the tenacious Stud Budz.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Sure, other fates are possible, like direct collapse to a black hole or explosions through the pair-instability mechanism, but a core-collapse supernova (also known as a type II supernova) represents the fate of the majority of the most massive stars ever to be born.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive object sits between Earth and a background source — in this case, RXJ1131-1231 and its quasar.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 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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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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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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Its mass is between 10 and 15 times the mass of our sun; again, typical for a red supergiant.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Computations weren't merely limited to simple figures, though; the Cat also allowed users to store the result of a computation to a variable and reference that variable in other computations.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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That definitely plays a little bit of a variable into it.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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Meta's first supercluster, called Prometheus, is slated to go live in 2026.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
21 July 2025
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Zuckerberg said Meta’s first supercluster is called Prometheus, and that the company is building several other multi-gigawatt clusters.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
14 July 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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In this kind of system, scientists theorize that the black hole tears the neutron star apart before swallowing it, which releases electromagnetic waves.—
Chad Hanna,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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Instead, these stars leave behind a white dwarf.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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What’s left behind is a massive white dwarf with a hydrogen-helium layer that’s 10 billion times thinner than usual, allowing detectable carbon to reach the surface.—
Andrew Paul Aug 6,
Popular Science,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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