09 Nov '23 08:27>
Just read about the discovery of new pulsars here:
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2311.00370
Since a pulsar can only be detected if you are on the direction of the pole of the pulsar, they were once deemed very seldom and hard to find. Now with the FAST device they scanned a very small area of our sky (4.7 square degrees from 41253 square degree of the whole sky) and found five new ones adding ot the six known ones in that reagion. So a rough estimate would assume that there are about 11000 pulsars pointing to our solar system, which in tunr means that there are hundred thousands of pulsars in the observable universe.
That seems hardly exotic now.
Lets see how many other once exotic phenomena will be discovered with increades measurement systems.
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2311.00370
Since a pulsar can only be detected if you are on the direction of the pole of the pulsar, they were once deemed very seldom and hard to find. Now with the FAST device they scanned a very small area of our sky (4.7 square degrees from 41253 square degree of the whole sky) and found five new ones adding ot the six known ones in that reagion. So a rough estimate would assume that there are about 11000 pulsars pointing to our solar system, which in tunr means that there are hundred thousands of pulsars in the observable universe.
That seems hardly exotic now.
Lets see how many other once exotic phenomena will be discovered with increades measurement systems.