Putting Pulsars To Work | Compilation

Humans are pretty good at inventing things to help us wrap our brains around the things surrounding us. But pulsars are provided by nature, so we’ve put them to work helping us understand more about the universe they we inhabit.

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[FunnCubes]

Can't even be an ancient celestial object anymore without having to pay taxes 😕

[Palozon]

Naming a neutron star "Lich" is just poetry.

[kjh]

The basic science of pulsars is really cool, but we can also use their signals as navigation beacons too for spacecraft! I study these navigation methods and it’s a very interesting topic that I think deserves a video!

[tubebility]

Pulsars are my favourite star. They just seem to resonate. 😉

[SockTheBop]

The naming of that Pulsar and it’s planets is just brilliant

[douglaswilkinson]

It's interesting that the white dwarves' merger didn't trigger a type 1a supernova. Since the angular momentum of the white dwarves was conserved -- ergo the millisecond pulsar -- the centrifugal force was enough to overcome the combined gravitation thus preventing the supernova.

[sarenbinkerd]

Pulsars are strangely more scary to me than most black holes. The sound, the wack physics, the obscene rotation rate for something so massive. The sounds of the pulses of radiation make my heart race.

[lachlandoig]

The naming scheme for Lich and its planets is the best

[ArchAnjell]

Thank you for labeling it a Compilation

[mursm]

There's a pulsar clock in St Catherine's Church in Gdańsk (Poland)

[leonardokalatiuk]

Thank you so mucha for this this information is pure gold for common people like me, regards from Argentina

[fraliexb]

I'm shocked you guys didn't mention Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit. So that if a neutron star reaches its mass limit of 2.16 solar masses, then it will collapse into a new black hole. So the campaign star getting added to the neutron star's mass could have resulted in planets in orbit around a black hole. 🤯

[paulalancaster]

What is the rule that Lich "may be no exception to", as stated (or loosely guessed?) at 5:06?

[jballenger]

Anyone know if JWST can aid in the detection additional pulsars? Are the cameras able to capture anything that might show periodicity?

[dzunepwnsipod]

I wonder if, in the space fairing future, we rid ourselves of terms like "planets" and "exoplanet" (as they are terms better suited for a lab than an explanation vessel.) what we would replace them with?
I could see a system that classified celestial bodies by particular "human level" properties. Like habitability, relative energy abundance, or if valuable resources are present.

[CrimsonKiwii]

I love cool science stuff like this. Science is so interesting. So many different areas of study that have their own amazing and fun stories. Even geology shouldn’t be taken for granite.

[sujimtangerines]

Oh. Always makes me sad to see pictures of pre-collapse Arecibo.

[jayjayscot]

prof. Aleksander Wolszczan disover 1st planets outside of our solar system not the Swiss?

[gumunduringigumundsson]

Skeletor should just go ahead and move to one of those planets hahahahahahhahaa!

[mandymouse]

I can't believe Reed invented the human voice.