{"id":73213,"date":"2017-10-10T21:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T04:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/massive-chinese-telescope-discovers-two-pulsars-while-still-in-trial-stage"},"modified":"2017-10-26T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:50:21","slug":"massive-chinese-telescope-discovers-two-pulsars-while-still-in-trial-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/massive-chinese-telescope-discovers-two-pulsars-while-still-in-trial-stage","title":{"rendered":"Massive Chinese Telescope Discovers Two Pulsars While Still in Trial Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-chinese-telescope-discovers-two-pulsars-while-still-in-trial-stage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After one year of trial operations, China\u2019s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), a 30-football-field-large radio telescope that is currently the world\u2019s largest, recently discovered two pulsars 16,000 and 4,100 light years from Earth, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Pulsars are magnetized and rotating collapsed stars that emit electromagnetic beams. Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) confirmed Tuesday that the new pulsars J1859-01 and J1931-01 were discovered on August 22 and 25 while the telescope was scanning the southern galactic plane. Australia\u2019s Parkes radio telescope confirmed the discovery in September, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-chinese-telescope-discovers-two-pulsars-while-still-in-trial-stage2.jpg\" width=\"705\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Artist\u2019s impression video of the exotic binary star system AR Scorpii\" title=\"Artist\u2019s impression video of the exotic binary star system AR Scorpii\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/science\/201710101058113879-massive-chinese-telescope-discovers-pulsars\/\">https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/science\/201710101058113879-massive-c...s-pulsars\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After one year of trial operations, China\u2019s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), a 30-football-field-large radio telescope that is currently the world\u2019s largest, recently discovered two pulsars 16,000 and 4,100 light years from Earth, respectively. Pulsars are magnetized and rotating collapsed stars that emit electromagnetic beams. Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) [\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-73213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73213","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=73213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73504,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73213\/revisions\/73504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}