{"id":3927876,"date":"2026-09-07T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/rare-pulsar-unleashes-114-giant-pulses-in-a-single-hour\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:03:11","slug":"rare-pulsar-unleashes-114-giant-pulses-in-a-single-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/rare-pulsar-unleashes-114-giant-pulses-in-a-single-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare pulsar unleashes 114 giant pulses in a single hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers have detected extreme, never-before-seen behavior from a rare kind of pulsar and stumbled on a surprising link to one of astronomy&#8217;s biggest current mysteries. Using 174 hours of radio observations, researchers detected PSR J1227-4853, a rapidly spinning neutron star known as a &#8220;transitional millisecond pulsar,&#8221; which unleashes hundreds of ultrashort, ultrapowerful &#8220;giant pulses.&#8221; Their paper was published in The Astrophysical Journal on July 31.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-rare-pulsar-unleashes-giant-pulses.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have detected extreme, never-before-seen behavior from a rare kind of pulsar and stumbled on a surprising link to one of astronomy&#8217;s biggest current mysteries. Using 174 hours of radio observations, researchers detected PSR J1227-4853, a rapidly spinning neutron star known as a &#8220;transitional millisecond pulsar,&#8221; which unleashes hundreds of ultrashort, ultrapowerful &#8220;giant pulses.&#8221; Their [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}