pulsar

[ US /ˈpʊɫsɝ/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌlsɑː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation
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How To Use pulsar In A Sentence

  • These emanations come from rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars - rotating beacons that periodically send energy in the direction of the earth.
  • The neutron star hasn't been a pulsar for at least that long. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
  • Pulsars and quasars may turn out to be commonplace in comparison to the exotic astrophysical events that gravity wave astronomy reveals.
  • Surrounding the pulsar is a bright doughnut-shaped, or toroidal, structure, with jet-like features extending in a perpendicular direction away from the torus.
  • All in all he quintupled the number of known pulsars in that particular sector of the sky.
  • Black holes, the cosmic microwave background, pulsars, neutron stars, gravitational lenses, gravity waves - these are just a few of the phenomena that would make no sense without general relativity.
  • Nothing and no-one told me that because education was compulsary, I should therefore "extinguish" the amount of voluntary learning I did outside of school hours. Mind the Gap by Ferdinand Mount
  • The Universe has its own heavenly sounds, such as pulsars, planetary magnetospheres and solar winds.
  • This model, called the superluminal model of pulsars, was described by Singleton and colleague Andrea Schmidt as solving many unanswered issues about pulsars. Faster-Than-Light Pulsar Phenomena | Universe Today
  • They discovered a new pulsar wake.
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