1967

Pulsar

• Jocelyn Bell had to argue
• that the bit of scruff
• on her chart-recorder pages
• jokingly dubbed LGM-1
• for “Little Green Men”
• was not just an anomaly
• but a new astronomical
• phenomenon.

Lighthouses

• Lighthouses
• composed of
• neutron stars
• or white dwarves
• sweep the sky
• at high rates
• to send out
• pulses of
• electro-
• magnetic
• emissions.

Pulsating quasar

• A pulsar pulsates
• but it isn’t a quasi-stellar object,
• since it’s a star,
• a star that in its explosive past
• spun off its lighter shell
• and collapsed
• to spin like crazy
• and from its highly magnetized core
• beam across the universe.

Portmanteaus

• Theortars, fantasars, and other creatates of scientiction,
• backed by astronysics, mathetry, and poetience,
• help peoplists contemplure the excessivast imagiverse.