Multiple Choice
What is a pulsar?
A) very hot material orbiting a black hole
B) Cepheid variable star with a period of a few days
C) pulsating white dwarf star, fluctuating rapidly in brightness
D) rapidly rotating neutron star, producing beams of radio energy and occasionally of X-rays and visible light
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