{"id":34294,"date":"2017-02-08T04:44:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/astronomers-find-first-white-dwarf-pulsar"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:53:23","slug":"astronomers-find-first-white-dwarf-pulsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/astronomers-find-first-white-dwarf-pulsar","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find first white dwarf pulsar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-first-white-dwarf-pulsar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feb. 7 (UPI) \u2014 Astronomers at the University of Warwick have located a white dwarf pulsar \u2014 the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, pulsars have been the domain of neutron stars. First discovered by astronomers in the 1960s, the binary stay systems are characterized by rhythmic blasts of electromagnetic radiation.<\/p>\n<p>The newly identified white dwarf pulsar is called AR Scorpii, or AR Sco. It\u2019s located in the constellation Scorpius, 380 light-years from our solar system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/02\/07\/Astronomers-find-first-white-dwarf-pulsar\/4831486482831\/?utm_source=fp&amp;utm_campaign=ls&amp;utm_medium=3\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/02\/07\/Astronomers-find-...m_medium=3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 7 (UPI) \u2014 Astronomers at the University of Warwick have located a white dwarf pulsar \u2014 the first of its kind. Until now, pulsars have been the domain of neutron stars. First discovered by astronomers in the 1960s, the binary stay systems are characterized by rhythmic blasts of electromagnetic radiation. The newly identified white [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34294","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48999,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34294\/revisions\/48999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}