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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Beards and Pulsars
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A few weeks ago I was on a bus going through Scranton and I read a super-awesome fun fact regarding the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar in Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars. Sadly, I have since forgotten it and left the book a few thousand miles away. So, let's just make up our own!
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