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的一些行星，它们都在围绕一个年纪更大的脉冲星飞行。

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

当它们扫过地球时，我们会接收到有规律的脉冲，因此它们被称作脉冲星。

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

脉冲星是一种快速转动的超高密度残骸，来自毁灭的大型恒星。

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

我们计算脉冲星阵列寻找引波信号所用的时间。

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

脉冲星上几乎没有阳光，到处都是强辐射。

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

你也可以将你的空闲电脑用于寻找脉冲星。

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

脉冲星之所以有如此强劲的引，是因为构成它的物质非常致密。

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们太阳系相对于14个脉冲星的位置。

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

散布在银河系中的、被称为“脉冲星”的死亡恒星，其自转发生了微妙的变化。

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

第二件大事是脉冲星空中爆炸的物体。

And that's why we call them a pulsar.

所以我们称之为“脉冲星”。

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

其中一些在我们看来是脉冲星，在旋转时闪烁着明亮的光芒。

Each of the lines connect Earth to a pulsar.

每条影线都将地球与一颗脉冲星连接起来。

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的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.

“我们认为这个新信号可能是大型磁星或脉冲星发出的。”

However pulsar planets are pretty hostile real estate for life.

不过，脉冲行星的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，它们的转速极快，往往每钟能旋转数百周。

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

在我们发现某行星在年级更小的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的恒星系统，即脉冲双星。