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...long it takes for a pulsar to develop is one puzzle 1987A may help answer. In addition, says Taylor, scientists would like to learn what kind of supernovas make pulsars. "We have a good idea that stars between eight and 15 times the mass of the sun are in the right range," he says, "but that is still somewhat speculative...
...unidentified burglar broke into a locker at Hemenway Gym between 12:45 p.m. and 1:20 p.m. last Sunday, taking $47 in cash and a $200 Pulsar Quartz watch Police said the burglar apparently used force. There are no suspects in the case...
...violent explosion--a supernova-- often characterizes a star's death, producing, at its brightest, radiation 10 billion times that of the sun and leaves behind a collapsed core of neutrons known as a pulsar...
While they have spotted hundred pulsars through radio emmissions, only two were ever actually photographed until Seward and his colleagues in recent months located a third optical pulsar. Moreover, the recently located pulsar is easily observeable...
...fact, the gravitational field around a pulsar is so strong that "It would literally lear you apart before you could even get close. It would pulverize any solid object into dust before reaching the surface," Seward says