How to Use pulsar in a Sentence

pulsar

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  • The pulsar and the inner white dwarf are in a 1.6-day orbit.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2018
  • The neutron star is a fast-spinning type known as a pulsar.
    — Mike Wall, NBC News, 5 July 2018
  • The much dimmer pulsar does still give off radio waves.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The number of millisecond pulsars is even less well-known.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
  • If one or both beams happen to pass over Earth, astronomers observe a pulsar.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Signals from the pulsar (a type of neutron star) were detected 4,600 light years away from Earth.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But in addition to the, well, pulsing, the key to identifying a pulsar is the timing.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2023
  • The pulsar wind nebula in this neutron star is known as MSH 15-52 and resembles the bones of a human hand.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • One white dwarf and the pulsar are orbiting each other every 1.6 days.
    — James Geach, Scientific American, 5 July 2018
  • Of course, the pulsar and white dwarf are very massive objects themselves, with strong self gravity.
    — James Geach, Scientific American, 5 July 2018
  • More than a decade of watching several dozen pulsars has yet to turn up a firm detection.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
  • To do this, the teams used pulsars, rapidly spinning stellar corpses that serve as perfect cosmic clocks.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The pulsar rotates every 33 milliseconds and shoots out radio waves and light which help to shape the nebula as a whole.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2017
  • Others were found by searching for variations in the predictable rhythms of pulsars.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Tellingly, the first pulsar was half-jokingly dubbed LGM-1 —for little green men.
    — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 21 July 2019
  • Any imperfection on a pulsar’s surface—even a bump just a millimetre high—would do the trick.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse tracked the motion of a pair of pulsars orbiting each other at a close distance.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Quasars and pulsars were deeply puzzling when first discovered.
    — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • What’s more, all existing models have been built on observations of pulsars in the Milky Way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The pulsar still shoots out jets of X-rays that extend for trillions of miles and create loops and swirls around the incredibly magnetic dead star.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Professor Plum could be a pulsar, a type of neutron star that rotates fast and spits beams of radiation from its poles.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
  • And the pulsar in question here has been under observation for nearly 20 years.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Its whirling magnetic fields sweep up matter and blast it outward in two beams, creating a pulsar.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Some could come from bright pulsars, whose beams are powered by their rotation rather than magnetic fields.
    — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This warping acted as a way to accelerate the pulsar's pulses through space.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Many neutron stars rotate rapidly and emit regular radio waves, and the objects that do are called pulsars.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2018
  • But the pulsar still spins, jetting out two beams of intense radiation that can be detected on Earth.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Oct. 2019
  • When these pulsars ride the swell of a gravitational wave, though, the space-time ripple distorts this precision.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • These pulsar systems let astronomers probe gravity on a new scale and with new precision.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But not always: Sometimes, the pulsar’s rate of rotation increases abruptly, causing a glitch.
    — Matthew Smith, Ars Technica, 8 July 2023

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