Here come the pulsars! On Thursday, NASA announced the discovery of 10 new pulsars, ultra-dense, ultra-fast-spinning dead stars that emit powerful beams, or “pulses,” of electromagnetic radiation. That brings the total number of pulsars discovered by the agency’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope to 100. Better yet, one of the new dead stars discovered was the youngest of a special kind of pulsar – the millisecond pulsar- discovered yet.
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