Sentences with phrase «as a neutron star spins»

As a neutron star spins, its polar fountains turn with it, like an interstellar lighthouse beam.

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As gas spirals toward the neutron star, it spins faster and faster until some unknown trigger produces powerful, coherent radio beacons.

If the neutron star begins life as an X-ray binary, however, the matter accumulating on its surface causes the neutron star to «spin up,» increasing its rate of rotation until it spins hundreds of times each second.

The double pulsar PSR J0737 — 3039A / B consists of two neutron stars in a highly relativistic orbit that displays a roughly 30 - second eclipse when pulsar A passes behind pulsar B. Describing this eclipse of pulsar A as due to absorption occurring in the magnetosphere of pulsar B, we successfully used a simple geometric model to characterize the observed changing eclipse morphology and to measure the relativistic precession of pulsar B's spin axis around the total orbital angular momentum.

Pulsars, the dense spinning remnants of exploded stars, contain about the same mass as the sun crushed into a wad of neutrons less than 10 miles wide.

Soon after, pulsars were identified as rapidly spinning neutron stars, the remnants of supernova explosions; they weigh as much as the sun but are just a dozen miles wide.

As the neutron star shrinks, it spins even faster, eventually causing small fragments to detach and fly off.

Since pulsars are superdense, spinning neutron stars left over when a massive star explodes as a supernova, it was logical to assume that the Monogem Ring, the shell of debris from a supernova explosion, was the remnant of the blast that created the pulsar.

Scientists have long suspected that a pulsar — a rapidly spinning, superdense neutron star — was born when a giant star ended its life in a cataclysmic supernova explosion observed in late summer of 1181, as suggested by Japanese and Chinese historical records.

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, which can be used as highly accurate natural clocks in space.

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other similar facilities to discover a new rotating neutron star, which is claimed to be one of the most extreme pulsars ever detected as its spin period is thousands of times longer than any such objects found so far.

Once the dust clears, the only thing remaining will be a very dense star known as a neutron star, these can often be rapidly spinning and are known as pulsars.