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Rapidly spinning dead star’s strange ‘glitches’ are oddly regular

Rapidly spinning dead star’s strange ‘glitches’ are oddly regular

What do you get when you stare at the same dead star for more than 20 years? Insight into the weirdest physics in the universe. The star PSR J0922+0638 is a pulsar. Pulsars are neutron stars — the ultradense leftover cores of long-dead stars — that spin rapidly and emit radiation at regular intervals. Pulsars have some of the wildest …

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