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US
/ˈpʊɫsɝ/
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[ UK /pˈʌlsɑː/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌlsɑː/ ]
NOUN
- a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation
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.