{"id":180,"date":"2008-02-28T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/02\/white-dwarf-acts-like-a-pulsar.html"},"modified":"2008-02-28T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T05:05:00","slug":"white-dwarf-acts-like-pulsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/02\/white-dwarf-acts-like-pulsar-180.html","title":{"rendered":"White Dwarf Acts Like A Pulsar"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Observers had believed white dwarfs were inert stellar corpses that slowly cool and fade away&#8230;At least one white dwarf, known as AE Aquarii, emits pulses of high-energy (hard) X-rays as it whirls around on its axis. &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing behavior like the pulsar in the Crab Nebula, but we&#8217;re seeing it in a white dwarf,&#8221; says Koji Mukai of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Some white dwarfs, including AE Aquarii, spin very rapidly and have magnetic fields millions of times stronger than Earth&#8217;s. These characteristics give them the energy to generate cosmic rays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/reports\/White_Dwarf_Pulses_Like_A_Pulsar_999.html\">Space Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(great, more to worry about!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers had believed white dwarfs were inert stellar corpses that slowly cool and fade away&#8230;At least one white dwarf, known as AE Aquarii, emits pulses of high-energy (hard) X-rays as it whirls around on its axis. &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing behavior like the pulsar in the Crab Nebula, but we&#8217;re seeing it in a white dwarf,&#8221; says Koji Mukai of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.<br \/>\n&#8230;Some white dwarfs, including AE Aquarii, spin very rapidly and have magnetic fields millions of times stronger than Earth&#8217;s. These characteristics give them the energy to generate cosmic rays.<br \/>\nFound at Space Daily.<br \/>\n(great, more to worry about!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmic-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->