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And magnetars are the most extreme of all: most of them are newborn pulsars that possess magnetic fields up to 1,000 times stronger than normal.
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
The two planets, roughly four times the size of Earth, were discovered to be orbiting around a millisecond pulsar star named PSR B1257+12, which is 2,300 light-years away.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 Jan. 2026
In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
In such a system, a rapidly spinning pulsar is joined by a smaller companion star, which would have once streamed material onto the pulsar and caused the pulsar to spin faster and power a strong wind, the release said.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
The two planets, roughly four times the size of Earth, were discovered to be orbiting around a millisecond pulsar star named PSR B1257+12, which is 2,300 light-years away.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 Jan. 2026
In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
In such a system, a rapidly spinning pulsar is joined by a smaller companion star, which would have once streamed material onto the pulsar and caused the pulsar to spin faster and power a strong wind, the release said.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulsar
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This autumn, though, the feminist alt-rock icons are finally giving us one hell of a sonic supernova.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2026
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Astronomers now think that this Ursa Major Arc may be a shock wave from an explosion or a supernova that happened over 100,000 years ago.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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In the case of this Einstein Cross, the gravitational lens is the galaxy J1453g in near-perfect alignment with Earth and a distant quasar, the active region at the heart of the galaxy, which is powered by a feeding supermassive black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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The team spotted the distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole, using observations from the Subaru Telescope.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
27 Sep. 2024
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Located 7,200 light-years away, Cygnus X-1 features not only a black hole — the first one ever identified more than a half-century ago — but a blue supergiant star, its constant companion.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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But after a long conversation with the guard Saturday, Redick said the most important variable is the player’s confidence.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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The statute of limitations is another critical variable in this equation.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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While the outer layers of a star explode outward, the innermost layers plunge inward, funneling a fraction of the star’s mass into the black hole (or neutron star if the star’s mass is too small).—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 Apr. 2026
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In the center is a white dwarf, the dense, compact core of a dying star.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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Morgan Giese, a physics and astronomy PhD candidate at Western, discovered the buckyballs are mostly surrounding the white dwarf in their own shell.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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