Mysterious Interstellar Plasma Revealed by Twinkling Pulsars - SciTechDaily

8/20/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago

Occasionally pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—show extreme variations in brightness. Astrophysicists predict that these short bursts of brightness occur because dense regions of interstellar plasma (the hot gas between s…

ByOzGravAugust 20, 2022 Artists illustration of a pulsar. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University Occasionally pulsarsrapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouseshow extr… [+4805 chars]

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