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- noun Plural form of
pulsar .
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Examples
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The discovery of the pulsars is of paramount importance to physics and astrophysics.
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Tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings, often with ghostly glows.
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Tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings, often with ghostly glows.
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But for us they are alive in our minds, close to our hearts, very much parts of the real world, just like the galaxies with their neutron stars and their pulsars are at the other end of the spectrum of dimensions of matter for our colleagues, the radioastronomers.
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In the process, they have tested and strengthened the validity of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity; found missing links between two classes of dense stellar objects called pulsars and magentars; and found that fastest-rotating neutron star ever.
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Various types of spinning stars called pulsars, as well as remnants left over from supernovas, also contribute confusing signals.
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Various types of spinning stars called pulsars, as well as remnants left over from supernovas, also contribute confusing signals.
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Various types of spinning stars called pulsars, as well as remnants left over from supernovas, also contribute confusing signals.
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Astronomers have long hoped to use these stars, called pulsars, as time-keepers but slight irregularities in their spinning rates have so far prevented those plans.
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Various types of spinning stars called pulsars, as well as remnants left over from supernovas, also contribute confusing signals.
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