Plate 73
Pulsar
A pulsar is a neutron star, the crushed core left after a giant star explodes.
- Family
- Space
- Origin
- Raised from a recipe
- Habit
- Nocturnal: kept on a dark stage
- Voice
- Yes, with the sound on
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
How to play
Tap it to spin it up. Set its spin speed in the Splash tab.
Notes
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.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spin up | Tap | ||
| Spin speed | Slider | 0 to 100% | 35% |
| Spin up | Button |
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 |