Quasar or quasi-stellar radio source. A source of not only radio waves, but also quanta of visible light.
Pulsars are neutron stars, or stars made up of neutrons only. Our sun is made up of hydrogen atoms which it turns into helium through fusion at approx 600 million tons per second. The pulsar emits quanta of radio waves in bursts. It is believed to be caused because as it went nova and expelled the other particles leaving the neutrons, it began to rotate as it coalesced.
Radio waves are prominent throughout space. The energy or background radiation left over from the Big Bang gives space a temperature of approx 3 degrees K. The energy propagates through space in radio wave frequencies.
2006-08-21 17:55:38
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answered by quntmphys238 6
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"...What are Quasars..."
Quasars (quasi-stellar-objects) are one of the most intense sources of energy in the known universe. They seem to lie at distances near the edge of the observable universe. Most astronomers believe that quasars are young galaxies in the process of formation.
"...Pulsars..."
So-called pulsars are neutron stars. Neutron stars are the remnants of very massive stars that have exploded. They have a diameter approximately the same as Earth's diameter and have a spin rate of milliseconds. All neutron stars project narrow beams of electromagnetic energy into space, and due to their high spin rate these beams rotate. If the beams just happen to be pointing at Earth we can 'hear' them as a rapid pulse.
"...radio waves from space..."
Space is filled with radio waves that are genereated by entire galaxies, individual stars, and even the molecules of various elements.
2006-08-21 18:05:39
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answered by Chug-a-Lug 7
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Quasar's..
Are believed to be the most remote objects in the universe. Despite their small size they produce tremendous amounts of light and microwave radiation: not much bigger than Earth's solar system, they pour out 100 to 1,000 times as much light as an entire galaxy containing a hundred billion stars.
Pulsars ..
A neutron star that emits rapid and periodic pulses of radiation.
Radio Waves From space..
is known as Electromagnetic Radiation .
nergy transmitted through space or through a material medium in the form of electromagnetic waves. The term can also refer to the emission and propagation of such energy. Whenever an electric charge oscillates or is accelerated, a disturbance characterized by the existence of electric and magnetic fields propagates outward from it. This disturbance is called an electromagnetic wave. The frequency range of such waves is tremendous, as is shown by the electromagnetic spectrum in the table. The sources given are typical, but not mutually exclusive.
2006-08-23 19:31:34
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answered by spaceprt 5
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pulsars are gadgets in area that emit pulses of radiation. information is convincing that they are immediately rotating remenants of stars that have colapsed maximum probable to neutron stars, ie they're too dense to incorporate atomic rely, the atoms have collapsed so the full action picture star is in basic terms a mass of neutrons. some neutron stars are extremely asymetrical and rotating immediately, this creates the pulses. Quasars are intensly radiating gadgets with crimson shifts that time out they're extremely a ways away and consequently from an early area of our universe. The anomily is that even nonetheless they're very a ways away the quantity of radiation achieving us potential that they might desire to be emitting potential at an surprising fee, greater like a galaxy than a action picture star, yet different information potential that they are factor materials, action picture star sized no longer galaxy sized. Thermo nuclear fusion as happens in stars isn't sufficient to potential those gadgets. they're now concept to be large black holes and the radiation is from rely being sucked into them.
2016-12-14 09:39:10
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answered by vazid 4
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