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Why did astronomers conclude that pulsars could not be pulsating stars?
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∙ 7y ago
Pulsars have extremely short periods; in some cases seconds, in some cases just a few milliseconds. There is no way a typical star, with its great size (for example, a diameter of 1.4 million kilometers in the case of our Sun) can pulsate that quickly.
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∙ 13y agoThe frequency was too high for a star sized mass to pulsate at.
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