Chat Marchet News Digest
Daily news and opinion from le Chat Marchet
May 16th, 2008 at 7:42 am

Astronomers baffled by weird, fast-spinning pulsar (Reuters)

Posted in: le Chat Marchet

“

A diagram shows a comparison of the sizes and strangely elliptical shapes of the orbits of the pulsar J1903+0327 and its apparently Sun-like companion star with the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. The sizes of the Sun and the possible companion star have been exaggerated by a factor of about 10, while that of the Earth has been exaggerated by a factor of about 1,000. The pulsar, with its magnetic field and beams of radiation, is too large by a factor of about 100,000. (Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Astronomers are baffled after
finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently
locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun —
an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.


“

Read the original source…

This entry was posted on Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 7:42 am and is filed under le Chat Marchet. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.