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Nature. Welcome back to the Nature only nature.

Welcome back to the nature podcast.

This week on the show, we'll be finding out about a glitch in a pulsar signal.

Plus, we'll be taking a look at the rising trend of remote sensing in ecology and conservation.

This is the nature podcast for the 12th of April 2018.

I'm Ellie Mackay. And I'm Benjamin Thompson. Wow, well, welcome, Ellie. It's your first time in the presenting chair.

Thank you. I'm really excited to be here.

Well, I'm excited to have you here as well.

Listeners, we've got a lot of science to get through in today's show.

First up, pulsars. Now, pulsars are incredible objects.

They're formed from the remnants of stars that were large enough to

die in a supernova but too small to collapse into a black hole. The result is a neutron star,

an object so dense that a sugar cube-sized chunk would weigh about as much as Mount Everest.

But neutron stars also spin, sometimes hundreds of times a second.

Combined with the neutron stars magnetic field, the result is a powerful stellar lighthouse.

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