When neutron stars were first predicted theoretically, no scientist expected to be able to detect one of them across interstellar distances. What enabled astronomers to find neutron stars in the late 1960's?

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Zoie Blanchard

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31 August, 15:59

When neutron stars were first predicted theoretically, no scientist expected to be able to detect one of them across interstellar distances. What enabled astronomers to find neutron stars in the late 1960's?

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Maia Potts · Answer 1

This is because We found strongly magnetic neutron stars whose whirling beams of energy were seen as pulsars.

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A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.