Pulsars

Pulsars are a very neat part of space. Pulsars are Neutron Stars spinning at tremendous intervals. Matter from the sun gets caught in the magnetic field. Some of the matter escapes at the poles. The matter that escapes creates the pulses. The pulses of the first Pulsar found were every 1.33731109 seconds. The timing is better than the best clock on earth. Jocelyn Bell was the discoverer of pulsars in August 1967. The Cambridge team dubbed it Pulsar. By February 24, 1968 three more were found. Hewish named it a Pulsating Star.

Pulsars are made from a super nova. After the star blows up, the remainder is a ball of neutrons. It gives off as much energy as the sun. A Neutron Star can be no bigger than Mars. It can be ten miles across. The pulses can last from a fifteenth to a twentieth of a second. One pulsar was found in the core of the Crab Nebula. Another may be between Vega and Altair.

When pulsars were first found there were many theories. One was it could be a planet. It would have to spin 30 times a second or spin at 1 1/3 of a second (1.33730109). That would mean it couldn't be a planet, a White Dwarf, or an ordinary star. These are the facts I got on pulsars. Come see the other links on our site.

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