Cosmic Queries – The Sound of Space with Kimberly Arcand
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The Contrast of X-Ray and Radio Wave
Why is a pulse up best seen in X-ray and radio wave seems contrary? Well, I mean, you know, pulse bars are really fascinating objects because they're like the leftover cores of stars that have passed on. When you have a place like a pulse are, which is extremely hot, anytime you have very high temperatures in the universe, things happen that give you high energy photons. But also a pulse are has a magnetic field and a magnetic field when it interacts with some of the particles in its vicinity will generate radio waves. So no part of the universe is out of your perfect.
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