If you were to look at your standard-fare pulsar star, what color would it appear?
1 Answer
Jun 12, 2016
Blue/white
Explanation:
Pulsars are neutron stars that rotate rapidly and eject a cone of electromagnetic radiation. When that cone sweeps past the Earth, we detect it as a "pulse" and thus the name pulsar.
The electromagnetic jet was initially discovered in the radio wave frequency but other pulsars have been found in many different EM wavelengths, including X-rays.
The colour of the pulsar itself, as best as I can discover, would appear to be blue/white.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/pulsars1.html
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