{"id":228554,"date":"2024-06-05T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/an-already-dead-star-is-dying-for-a-second-time\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:49","slug":"an-already-dead-star-is-dying-for-a-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/an-already-dead-star-is-dying-for-a-second-time\/","title":{"rendered":"An already dead star is dying for a second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/05111348\/SEI_207444836.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2434270 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\" Artsiom P\/Shutterstock\" data-caption=\"Pulsars emit beams of radiation\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Pulsars emit beams of radiation<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Artsiom P\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A dead star appears to be dying again, say astronomers who have spotted a pulsar that is gradually losing its spin.<\/p>\n<p>Pulsars are a form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26234911-400-we-are-about-to-hear-echoes-in-the-fabric-of-space-for-the-first-time\/\">neutron star<\/a>, which are themselves the remnants of a massive star that reached the end of its life in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134722-200-supernova-neutrinos-could-break-physics-if-we-can-make-sense-of-them\/\">supernova explosion<\/a>. They get their name because they spin rapidly, usually multiple times a second, releasing beams of radiation that appear to \u201cpulse\u201d when viewed from Earth. It is thought that pulsars gradually slow down over time, eventually crossing\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2434222-an-already-dead-star-is-dying-for-a-second-time\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Pulsars emit beams of radiation Artsiom P\/Shutterstock A dead star appears to be dying again, say astronomers who have spotted a pulsar that is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}