Pulsar

A pulsar is a neutron star, the crushed core left after a giant star explodes.

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Shelf: Space
Kind: Built from a recipe
Sound: Yes
Hands-on: Yes
Licenses: CC0

How to play

Tap it to spin it up. Set its spin speed in the Splash tab.

Its controls

Control	Kind	Range	Start
Spin up	Tap
Spin speed	Slider	0 to 100%	35%
Spin up	Button

About it

A pulsar is a neutron star, the crushed core left after a giant star explodes. It is only about 20 kilometers across, the size of a city, yet it holds more matter than the Sun. It spins fast and sends out two beams of light from its magnetic poles.

Like a lighthouse, it seems to flash each time a beam sweeps past. Tap it to spin it up until the flashes blur into a strobe, each with a deep pulse, then it winds down. Set its spin speed in the Splash tab. The first pulsar was found by Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967, and the fastest spin hundreds of times a second.

Details

Splats: Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 42,720 at Low, and up to 370,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Work	By	License
Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3)	Za-Games	CC0 1.0

Share it

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