A neutron star is an imploded core of a massive star that occurs from a supernova. It is one of the ways of a high mass star to end its stellar evolution cycle. The typical mass of a neutron star is 1.4 times the mass of our Sun. Neutron stars occur once a star uses up all of its fuel and sheds its outer layer and then collapses on itself. A pulsar is a neutron star that emits beams of radiation that sweeps through Earth's line of sight. The pulses of high energy that we can see from Earth comes from the misalignment of the neutron star's rotation and magnetic axis.
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| Vela Pulsar |
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| Neutron Star |
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