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What's the Difference Between a Pulsar and a Quasar? - Shocking Science Astronomy Pictures, Neutron Star, Galaxy Images, Star Illustration, Space News, Space Tattoo, Cosmic Horror, Space Pictures, Space Science

Do you know the difference between a pulsar and a quasar? Or how about the history of their discovery? A pulsar (portmanteau of pulsating star) is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing toward the Earth,...

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Pulsar Star NASA | Artist’s impression of a pulsar. Pulsars are rotating neutron stars ... Cosmic Dance, Wow Photo, Neutron Star, Space Photos, Space Pictures, To Infinity And Beyond, Science Technology, Space Science, Space And Astronomy

A team of astronomers, including Danai Antonopoulou and Anna Watts from the University of Amsterdam, has discovered that sudden speed jumps in the rotational velocity of pulsars have a minimum size, and that they are caused not by the unpinning and displacement of just one sub-surface superfluid vortex, but by billions. This result is important to our understanding of the behavior of matter under extreme conditions, and has been published this week in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal…

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