"Pulsar Star"

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"Pulsar Star"

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i_like_1981 wrote:I respect a person who uses the knowledge they have of our language to come onto a forum with an opposing view and attempt to have a decent discussion. He's trying his best. Defend your points all you want, Fat Man, but it's unfair to insult his English skills when he's not a native speaker and is trying his hardest to communicate with us.
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WWWELLLLLLL??? DON'T YA HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY? :o :o :o

Anyway . . . . .

Cool picture! I like it!

Actually, a pulsar is a rapidly rotating small white neutron star.

There is one in the Crab Nebula, the remains of a super nova, a widely-observed event, by Arab, Chinese, and Japanese astronomers recording the star's appearance in 1054 CE.

It's now known to be a small neutron star about 28 to 30 kilometers in diameter rotating at about 30.2 revolutions per second!!!

Anyway . . . . .

The picture of the blue star is cool!

I like it.

Thanks.
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Fat Man wrote:
Actually, a pulsar is a rapidly rotating small white neutron star.

There is one in the Crab Nebula, the remains of a super nova, a widely-observed event, by Arab, Chinese, and Japanese astronomers recording the star's appearance in 1054 CE.

Wasn't the Crab Nebula discussed by Carl Sagan in the original "Cosmos" series? I seem to remember him saying it was the only supernova in historical times thus far that was visible to the naked eye.
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