1 | And we do know that it is this star that is the pulsar and we know that it is not that star. | |
2 | For example, spinning neutron stars called pulsars emit clocklike streams of electromagnetic pulses. | |
3 | But it's been mostly cannibalized by its pulsar companion, and is now just a shadow of its former self. | |
4 | Such "pulsar glitches" likely result from brief interactions between the neutron star's solid crust and superfluid interior. | |
5 | But the find was part of a major international search designed to look for and study pulsars across the sky - and that search is far from over. |