{"id":472966,"date":"2018-05-09T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=06b612e48201f041ef6a48b96b3d025c"},"modified":"2018-05-09T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:25:20","slug":"bursting-pulsar-found-to-hiccup-during-crucial-stage-of-its-lifecycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=472966","title":{"rendered":"Bursting pulsar found to &#8216;hiccup&#8217; during crucial stage of its lifecycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered that the unique &#8216;Bursting Pulsar&#8217; \u2013 a neutron star which steals matter from a low-mass stellar neighbour \u2013 may also be the slowest known &#8216;transitional pulsar&#8217; in existence. Transitional pulsars are a rare class of neutron stars, which alternate between showing X-ray and radio pulsations over timescales of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered that the unique &#8216;Bursting Pulsar&#8217; &ndash; a neutron star which steals matter from a low-mass stellar neighbour &ndash; may also be the slowest known &#8216;transitional pulsar&#8217; in existence. Transitional pulsars are a rare class of neutron stars, which alternate between showing X-ray and radio pulsations over timescales of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472967,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472966\/revisions\/472967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}