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What is a pulsar?

What is a pulsar? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (astronomy) A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically
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Most millisecond pulsars hover around the 300 revolutions per second mark, and the fastest spinning pulsar ever detected clocked in at 641 rps.
If the pulsar were indeed a binary, its frequency should at some point start to increase.
The tick of this pulsar clock is very regular, a sharp pulse every 0.059 second.
Sifting through these observations, they were able to detect the white dwarf orbiting the pulsar and measure its color and temperature.
The object is being stimulated by jets from a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar.
Some of the first pulsar planet discoveries were later retracted by their discoverers.

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