Frequently Asked Questions for Astronomy 2201

Questions about pulsars

• What is a pulsar?
• What is a millisecond pulsar?
• Some important dates in the history of pulsar research
• How do pulsars evolve?
• What is a neutron star?
• Why are there so many millisecond pulsars in globular clusters?
• What is the binary pulsar known as PSR 1913+16?
• What is the pulsar known as the "Black Widow"?
• Planets around the pulsar PSR 1257+12?
• Read Jocelyn Bell Burnell's story of discovery of pulsars.
• See the Royal Greenwich Observatory's leaflet on pulsars.

Useful animations related to binary stars

• UTenn-Knoxville orbit animation
• Terry's Herter's binary star orbits animation

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