Getting to know the Cousins:
Along
with the normal variant of Neutron stars,
there are also Neutron stars that act
strangely. Such as Pulsars, which are Neutron
stars whose magnetic and rotational poles do not line
up, thus the ejections of radiation acts in a rotating
beam.(Pulsars)
Source(Gent, Edd)
This causes an
interesting interstellar lighthouse effect. To
us on earth we will be able to pick up a burst of that
radiation on the interval of the speed rotation of the
star. Since these stars can be rotating at
immense speeds the interval can be quite small.
Along with Pulsars there are Magnitar, which a Neutron
star with one of the most intense magnetic fields in
the universe. These Neutron stars undergo
constant "Starquakes", where the crust of the star is
put under immense amounts of stress. These
starquakes also cause a massive amount of radiation to
be emitted.
Source(Magnitar)
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