In 1992, astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system, which were orbiting an older pulsar.

1992年，天文学家首次发现太阳系外一些行星，它都在围绕一个年纪更大脉冲星飞行。

When the beams sweep across the Earth, they can be heard as regular pulses, so we call them pulsars.

当它扫过地球时，我收到有规律脉冲，因此它被称作脉冲星。

A pulsar is the rapidly rotating ultra-dense remnant of a collapsed massive star.

脉冲星是一种快速转动超高密度残骸，来自毁灭大型恒星。

And we time an array of pulsars will look for gravitational wave signals.

我计算脉冲星阵列寻找引力波信号所用时间。

Pulsars provide little light or heat and would bathe these worlds in intense radiation.

脉冲星上几乎没有阳光和热量，到处都是强辐射。

You too can lend your spare computer power to the pulsar hunt.

也可以空闲电脑力量用于寻找脉冲星。

Pulsars have such extreme gravity because they're made of incredibly dense matter.

脉冲星之所以有如此强劲引力，是因为构成它物质非常致密。

Each golden record displays the location of our solar system with respect to fourteen pulsars.

每个金唱片都显示着我太阳系相对于14个脉冲星位置。

Telltale tweaks to the spins of dead stars called pulsars scattered throughout the Milky Way.

散布在银河系中、被称为“脉冲星”死亡恒星，其自转发生了微妙变化。

And the second big thing is pulsars and things going bang in the sky.

第二件大事是脉冲星和空中爆炸物体。

And that's why we call them a pulsar.

所以我称之为“脉冲星”。

Some of them we see as pulsars, flashing in brightness as they spin.

其中一些在我看来是脉冲星，在旋转时闪烁着明亮光芒。

Each of the lines connect Earth to a pulsar.

每条影线都地球与一颗脉冲星连起来。

But Ig and Rev were big helps in finding previously unknown pulsars in our own Milky Way galaxy—24 of them.

但是这些网友在找到银河中之前未知24颗脉冲星发挥了很大作用。

" We think this new signal could be a magnetar or pulsar on steroids, " Michilli said.

“我认为这个新信号可能是大型磁星或脉冲星发出。”

However pulsar planets are pretty hostile real estate for life.

不过，脉冲行星环境很不适合生命存在。

It's right there in the name pulsar timing array.

证据就在“脉冲星计时阵列”这个名字中。

Discovered in 1967, pulsars spin very rapidly, often hundreds of times per second.

脉冲星于1967年被发现，它转速极快，往往每秒钟能旋转数百周。

The discovery of a planet forming disk around a younger pulsar makes this likely.

在我发现某行星在年级更小脉冲星附近形成圆盘后，就更加确信了这一点。

They also used it to find an unusual kind of star system, a binary pulsar, in 1967.

1967年，科学家还用该望远镜找到了一个罕见恒星系统，即脉冲双星。