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itsmyluck · **on:** Jul 27, 2018

How can prolonged observations of pulsars yield their approximate age?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The angular resolution of an 8 inch diameter telescope is ________ times greater than that of a 2 inch diameter telescope.

A) 8 B) 2 C) 16 D) 4 E) 9

coyin · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Unless being fed mass from a companion, the pulsars must eventually slow down as their magnetic fields impart spin energy outward in the form of the observed pulses; if the rate they are slowing down is carefully studied, it may tell us when they were spinning much faster, newly hatched from the supernova birth.

Answer to Question 2

D