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Pulsar: The Cosmic Lighthouse.
Pulsars: The Lighthouse of the Cosmos. Image Credit: NASA. Pulsar. What Is a Pulsar? Pulsar is a type of neutron star . It is a dead star which don't fades but starts spinning very rapidly and shoots out beams of light from its magnetic poles like a lighthouse. It is 20 km wide and has more mass than the Sun. How Does a Pulsar Work? Pulsar spins like a ballerina. It is fast in spinning because it is a dead star which's core collapsed, this collapse makes that star spin faster and have stronger magnetic field than our Earth's. This star shoots out radio waves , gamma rays or X-rays from its poles, in narrow beams. These beams are not always pointing towards the Earth, we just see a pulse of the beam and that's why it is called a pulsar. How Were the Pulsars Discovered? In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was analyzing data from a telescope designed to study quasars . But she noticed something odd, which was that every day, in the same part of the sky, her chart showed...
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