What is a Pulsar? Crossword Puzzle

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• nuclear pasta : the strange state of matter inside neutron stars is what scientists call ' _ _ '
• black widow : the pulsar designated psr j0952−0607 is also known as the _ _ pulsar as it is believed to have reached record-breaking rotational speed and mass by consuming a companion binary star.
• extraterrestrial : when it (pulsar) was deduced that these highly regular signals must originate from the universe, the suggestion was made that they could be the result of intelligent _ life.
• pulses : pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that blast out _ of radiation at regular intervals ranging from seconds to milliseconds.
• magnetic : pulsars have strong _ fields that funnel particles along their magnetic poles accelerating them to relativistic speeds, which produces two powerful beams of light, one from each pole.
• millisecond : there are two types of pulsars, ones with periods of a few milliseconds with this periodicity changing very slowly over time, called _ pulsars.
• lighthouses : thus, in effect, pulsars can be thought of as 'cosmic _ .'
• neutrons : this creates neutron star matter composed of 95% _ , because the collapse has forced electrons and protons together.
• nuclear fusion : like all neutron stars, pulsars are born when stars with masses between four and eight times that of the sun run out of fuel for _ _ .
• binary : one theory as to why millisecond pulsars rotate even more rapidly is that they are born from massive stars in a _ system.