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Star Finders

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High Point University students help discover a rare pulsar star system.

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that appear to be blinking from where we see them on Earth, and astronomers have not found very many of them. Watch as High Point University students travel to an observatory in Chile to discover one of of these rare stars.

05/05/2016 | Rating NR

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Star Finders

Special | 4m 54sVideo has Closed Captions

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that appear to be blinking from where we see them on Earth, and astronomers have not found very many of them. Watch as High Point University students travel to an observatory in Chile to discover one of of these rare stars.

05/05/2016 | Rating NR

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