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What is a pulsar?

Small but Mighty. Despite their small diameters : about 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) : neutron stars boast nearly 1.5 times the mass of our sun, and are thus incredibly dense. Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth.

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The Crab Nebula
The Vela Pulsar

X-Ray image of the pulsar EXO 2030 + 375