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Recent Examples of pulsar
Then in 1993, millisecond X-ray pulsars were discovered.
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IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2018
Their origins are not fully understood, but they are expected to be produced by some of the most powerful events in the Universe, from collapsing stars and pulsars to the volatile environments around the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
—Matt Von Hippel, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2024
This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
Researchers can look for gaps and anomalies in the pattern of radio waves emitted from these spinning pulsars to detect gravitational waves.
—Jonathan Zrake, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2018
Their origins are not fully understood, but they are expected to be produced by some of the most powerful events in the Universe, from collapsing stars and pulsars to the volatile environments around the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
—Matt Von Hippel, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2024
This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
Researchers can look for gaps and anomalies in the pattern of radio waves emitted from these spinning pulsars to detect gravitational waves.
—Jonathan Zrake, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
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That means that this dataset of nearby supernovas is several times larger than previous similar samples.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2025
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But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
29 Nov. 2024
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Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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In a new video, longtime Valve watcher Tyler McVicker goes into detail on a bevy of new variables and strings found after spending hours datamining the latest update to Dota 2 (the first update for that game since mid-December).—
Kevin Purdy,
Ars Technica,
26 Feb. 2025
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But this year saw a freak variable that prompted DraftKings to adjust the lines.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2025
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For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Roman will be looking at the motion of the universe in the visible range too, thanks to what are known as type 1a supernovas—exploding stars that are part of a binary star system.—
Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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