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Paperback Clocks in the Sky: The Story of Pulsars Book

ISBN: 0387765603

ISBN13: 9780387765600

Clocks in the Sky: The Story of Pulsars

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Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions.

In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), which emit short bursts of radio signals separated...

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