China's FAST telescope has scoured the archives to find 19 pulsars missed by previous searches
Sandeep K S
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China's FAST Telescope Discovers 19 New Pulsars: Using archival data, researchers identified pulsars located 5,500 to 54,700 light years away by targeting unexplored sky regions. With spin periods ranging from 0.03 to 5.54 seconds, the findings include two potential "switching" pulsars and set a notable record for highly dispersed signals.
China's FAST telescope—the largest on Earth—has scoured the archives to find 19 pulsars missed by previous searches, including rare "transient" ghosts.
Pulsars (spinning neutron stars) are lighthouses of the cosmos. Most are found near the Galactic Plane, where stars are dense.
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