radio pulsar

C29548 concept

A radio pulsar is a rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron star that emits beams of radio waves from its magnetic poles, observed as periodic pulses when the beams sweep across Earth.

Observed surface forms (1)

pulsar ×2

Instances (4)

first binary pulsar PSR B1913+16
surface form: PSR B1913+16
first millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21
surface form: PSR B1937+21
Crab Nebula via concept surface "pulsar"
surface form: Crab Pulsar
M. M. Goss via concept surface "pulsar"
surface form: PSR B1937+21