Word: pulsare
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Scientists theorize that some stars die in a violent explosion known as a supernova, which creates a pulsar-a very dense core of neutrons...
...team of Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientists has located the third known visible light pulsar-one of the rarest, least understood astronomical phenomena...
Manuals for smaller, less expensive items can also be frustrating. Instructions for a Pulsar digital quartz watch ($59) go on for 13 pages before telling how to set the time. One Hewlett-Packard financial calculator ($110) comes with an operating booklet that runs to 246 pages of small type. The company supplements that with a 170-page training guide that sells for $15. "People have said we should do something like this for all our manuals," observes Janet Cryer, who wrote the guide...
...things, a real astronomer. With a nonchalant gesture over his magical controls, he guides the ship on a voyage made possible only by the imagination, with the help of a Hollywood special-effects crew. Into the arms of giant galaxies he goes, through halos of stars, past a blinking pulsar, skirting the edge of a black hole, even reconnoitering a distant planet that seems to be inhabited...
Gravitational Waves and the Binary Pulsar--Prof. Joseph Taylor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Jefferson...