Despite deadly rays, pulsars could host habitable planets
[ad_1] Artistic impression of a habitable world (center) near a pulsar (right). Such a world should have a massive environment that transforms the deadly X-rays and high-energy particles of the pulsar into heat. (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge). Althoughpulsars routinely blast out deadly gamma rays and X-rays, alien planets in orbit around them could […]