{"id":137079,"date":"2022-03-18T22:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/pulsar-shoots-7-light-year-long-phaser-blast"},"modified":"2022-03-18T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T05:04:32","slug":"pulsar-shoots-7-light-year-long-phaser-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/pulsar-shoots-7-light-year-long-phaser-blast","title":{"rendered":"Pulsar Shoots 7-light-year-long Phaser Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pulsar-shoots-7-light-year-long-phaser-blast.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nature proves truth is still stranger than fiction: A pulsar has shot energetic particles in a thin, straight line that extends for light-years into space. The discovery might explain how antimatter makes its way to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Star Trek can keep its ray guns \u2014 pulsars make far more powerful beams of radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Crushed stellar cores, left behind when a massive star goes supernova, are among nature\u2019s own particle accelerators. Though pulsars are only the size of Manhattan, their dizzying spins and powerful magnetic fields can energize particles to a significant fraction of the speed of light. In addition, pulsars glow with high-energy radiation, which can itself convert into pairs of electrons and their antimatter counterpart, positrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature proves truth is still stranger than fiction: A pulsar has shot energetic particles in a thin, straight line that extends for light-years into space. The discovery might explain how antimatter makes its way to Earth. Star Trek can keep its ray guns \u2014 pulsars make far more powerful beams of radiation. Crushed stellar cores, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}