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Shedding New Light on a Pulsar Mystery

Posted April 28, 2010 8:54 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

Astronomers at the fledgling Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) are teaming up with established radio observatories to study the weird and wonderful properties of pulsars. These dense, spinning, highly magnetized neutron stars emit radiation in focused beams which produce a "lighthouse" effect as these beams sweep across the Earth. Despite over four decades of study, the mechanism for generating these beams is not fully understood.

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Re: Shedding New Light on a Pulsar Mystery

04/29/2010 6:44 AM

Interesting, I had always thought that nuetron stars emitted a form of Cyclotron radiation. Oh well, out of date again...

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