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Screenshot of a tweet by @AstroKatie explaining the jets and magnetic field structure of pulsars. The pulsar itself is shown as a black basketball with narrow paper cones attached to the poles as jets. A second picture shows blue, lobed magnetic field lines. The text reads: "This is the classroom demonstration pulsar that I have built; look on it with cosmic wonder. (And read more about pulsars here: https://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/everyone/pulsars/index.html)"

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Screenshot of a tweet by @AstroKatie explaining the jets and magnetic field structure of pulsars. The pulsar itself is shown as a black basketball with narrow paper cones attached to the poles as jets. A second picture shows blue, lobed magnetic field lines. The text reads: "This is the classroom demonstration pulsar that I have built; look on it with cosmic wonder. (And read more about pulsars here: https://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/everyone/pulsars/index.html)"
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 15:22:21 UTC Robert McNees
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Before long, the sources were identified as rotating, magnetized neutron stars. A tightly collimated beam of radiation is ejected along the neutron star's magnetic axis. We see regular pulses as it rotates, hence “pulsar."
Here, let me show you with this old tweet by @AstroKatie. (The link in the tweet points to https://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/everyone/pulsars/index.html)

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