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How does a pulsar come into being?
How does a pulsar come into being?
Secret of Pulsars
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A pulsar “is” a neutron star.
But, it is a neutron star that is behaving in a particular way.Note that if there was a neutron star somewhere nearby, say the distance to the closest visible star, which is approximately 4 light years away from us here on Earth, it is just a 1.4 solar mass ball that is 10 miles in radius and does not shine or anything like that. i.e. we would not “see” it. The neutron star would just be a dark ball way out in space that we would have no chance of seeing even with today’s most powerful telescopes.
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