Assertion: pulsar's pulse | /r/HasProperty | regular
Facets:
value: like a ticking clock
type: DEGREE
value: extremely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Most of the pulsar applications are possible because the pulses are so regular that they can be used like the tick of a clock.
text: Pulsars are sources of powerful electromagnetic radiation, emitted in short and extremely regular pulses many times a second.
text: The pulses we see from here on Earth are so regular that you could set your watch by them, but this also means that any changes in the pulse timing is quite easy to spot.
text: That's why the pulse is so regular.
text: The pulses were so regular, so much like a ticking clock, that Bell and her supervisor Anthony Hewish couldn't believe it was a natural phenomenon," said Zaven Arzoumanian of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
text: The fact that the pulses of radiation are so sharp and regular allows an astronomer to make very accurate measurements of the period of the pulses.
text: The pulses were so regular that an artificial terrestrial source was suspected for them, but careful, extended radio observations showed that their source rose and set about four minutes earlier each day, which demonstrated that the source was a celestial object (radio star).