Weird new star type pulses on only one side

Space.com ^ | Elizabeth Howell

[higgmeister]

How does that not sound like “The Death Star?”

[TigersEye]

This star sounds very unstable. Is it running on a Dem ticket?

[DannyTN]

Are they sure the telescope wasn’t pointed at Biden’s brain?

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Bob434]

must have a shy side

[Ezekiel]

Astronomers have finally found something they have spent decades searching for: a teardrop-shaped star that pulsates on only one side.

Everyone needs a hobby.

[webheart]

In before Uranus!

[webheart]

Klingons around Uranus in 3.. 2.. 1..

[TigersEye]

And the red dwarf circling his head is Bernie?

[webheart]

All kidding aside, this is clickbait. A star cannot be teardrop shaped. They said oh it is weird and shaped like a teardrop all you stupid people who don’t know crap about astrophysics. Then they say oh it really is a binary star system with one of the two stars being a pulsar. The pulsar pulsates in all directions on its equatorial plane while the companion star eclipses it regularly as they orbit each other. The smaller star is probably a neutron star and is probably more massive because neutron stars are the pulsars and are smaller and more dense because they have more mass. That explains why the larger star can eclipse the smaller pulsar and the fuzzy image in the telescope looks like a teardrop because you can not focus at that distance.

Why it took 40 years to find one? Because they don’t last very long. That neutron star is going to consume the larger companion star probably in less than 10,000 years.

[Viking2002]

'This star sounds very unstable. Is it running on a Dem ticket?'

Do we look the the Dem ticket? Oh, wait.......

[TigersEye]

LOL Why, yes, yes you do!

[C210N]

Just out on Mar 13, 15:00 min, The History Guy on our favorite topic of Uranus. History that's worth being Remembered!

The Discovery of Uranus

[Telepathic Intruder]

The article says the companion star is a red dwarf. But yes it’s probably a very short-lived scenario, if a few million years can be considered short-lived.

[Larry Lucido]

“Often, fluctuations in a star’s light can be traced to a planet crossing across the face of that star — this is the entire premise of the TESS mission. Such fluctuations, however, may also stem from stellar activity, as in the case of HD74423.”

I was telling an Asian lady this just the other day. “Why that star pulse on one side so much” she asked?

“Fluctuations,” I said.

“Fluc you too!” she replied.

[Bernard]

Sounds like the Christmas lights my wife puts up every winter, on the coldest and windiest day of the fall. If only she would expect to test each string herself and not bother normal people!!

[Right Wing Assault]

I've been looking for a squirrel whose left side legs are twice as long as the right side legs. No luck. I envy these guys who finally got their wish.

[null and void]

Red Dwarf Ping!

[Candor7]

Won Hung Lo Stars.