How to Use pulsar in a Sentence

pulsar

noun

• The pulsar and the inner white dwarf are in a 1.6-day orbit.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2018
• The neutron star is a fast-spinning type known as a pulsar.
  — Mike Wall, NBC News, 5 July 2018
• The much dimmer pulsar does still give off radio waves.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
• The number of millisecond pulsars is even less well-known.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
• If one or both beams happen to pass over Earth, astronomers observe a pulsar.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2019
• Signals from the pulsar (a type of neutron star) were detected 4,600 light years away from Earth.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2019
• But in addition to the, well, pulsing, the key to identifying a pulsar is the timing.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2023
• The pulsar wind nebula in this neutron star is known as MSH 15-52 and resembles the bones of a human hand.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
• This cloud of blue gas is known as a pulsar wind nebula, formed when the rapid rotations of a pulsing dead star clear gas away.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024
• One white dwarf and the pulsar are orbiting each other every 1.6 days.
  — James Geach, Scientific American, 5 July 2018
• Of course, the pulsar and white dwarf are very massive objects themselves, with strong self gravity.
  — James Geach, Scientific American, 5 July 2018
• More than a decade of watching several dozen pulsars has yet to turn up a firm detection.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
• To do this, the teams used pulsars, rapidly spinning stellar corpses that serve as perfect cosmic clocks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• The pulsar rotates every 33 milliseconds and shoots out radio waves and light which help to shape the nebula as a whole.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2017
• Others were found by searching for variations in the predictable rhythms of pulsars.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Tellingly, the first pulsar was half-jokingly dubbed LGM-1 —for little green men.
  — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, 21 July 2019
• Any imperfection on a pulsar’s surface—even a bump just a millimetre high—would do the trick.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse tracked the motion of a pair of pulsars orbiting each other at a close distance.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2017
• Quasars and pulsars were deeply puzzling when first discovered.
  — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
• What’s more, all existing models have been built on observations of pulsars in the Milky Way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
• The pulsar still shoots out jets of X-rays that extend for trillions of miles and create loops and swirls around the incredibly magnetic dead star.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2020
• Professor Plum could be a pulsar, a type of neutron star that rotates fast and spits beams of radiation from its poles.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
• And the pulsar in question here has been under observation for nearly 20 years.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2020
• Its whirling magnetic fields sweep up matter and blast it outward in two beams, creating a pulsar.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Some could come from bright pulsars, whose beams are powered by their rotation rather than magnetic fields.
  — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
• This warping acted as a way to accelerate the pulsar's pulses through space.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• Many neutron stars rotate rapidly and emit regular radio waves, and the objects that do are called pulsars.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2018
• But the pulsar still spins, jetting out two beams of intense radiation that can be detected on Earth.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Oct. 2019
• When these pulsars ride the swell of a gravitational wave, though, the space-time ripple distorts this precision.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• But unlike a pulsar, those bursts were separated by over 20 minutes.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024