Where To Stream The Universe Season 4 Episode 10
Pulsars & Quasars
- Aired October 27, 2009
- 60 Min
- Rated 8.0
- Number 43 Of 84 Rated Episodes
They sort of sound like the same phenomenon, but Pulsars and Quasars are very different. Pulsars are tiny--only a few miles across--but they spin as fast as a kitchen blender and sweep the sky with beacons of radiation that make them appear to flash on and off. They have unbelievably strong magnetic fields, are more accurate than atomic clocks...and they can even tell aliens just where to find the Earth! Quasars are at the other end of the spectrum. Quasars are huge cores of galaxies with black...