{"id":783490,"date":"2024-06-05T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783490"},"modified":"2024-06-05T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T12:34:21","slug":"an-already-dead-star-is-dying-for-a-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783490","title":{"rendered":"An already dead star is dying for a second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/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 neutron star, which are themselves the remnants of a massive star that reached the end of its life in a supernova explosion. 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 a\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><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=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 gradually losing its spin. Pulsars are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":783491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783490","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/783491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}