#pulsar planets

[colorpicked-pride-flags-jwst]

Transfem flag colorpicked from artist’s impression of pulsar planet PSR J2322-2650b

[thriftedspacesuit]

Ahhhhh I just found out there are planets that orbit pulsars, space is so cool! (Artist rendering courtesy of NASA)

[author-james-raisanen]

Pulsar planets are so cool, you guys.

[alxndrasplace]

(Image) Artist’s concept

(NASA)  Zombie Worlds - Planet PSR B1257+12 c

If you can’t stand the stillness of the grave or the rotting flesh of zombies, then the pulsar planets are off-limits. Nothing can live in this most inhospitable corner of the galaxy. An astronaut who flew to the planet Poltergeist (a.k.a. PSR B1257+12 c) would find herself in the midst of three dead planet cores shambling through the twisted magnetic fields of their corpse star. Like the decaying ruins of a once-great house, the star Lich–named for a fictional undead creature­– is the collapsed core of an exploded star. But that’s not the creepiest part of this planetary graveyard. Lich has twin spinning beams of radiation spinning faster than you can blink, which can instantly incinerate any spaceship. The radiation constantly rains down on Poltergeist and its neighboring worlds, creating silent nights, possibly lit with sickly irradiated auroras. If your supernatural reflexes can get you to a planetary surface, good luck. Planet Draugr (PSR B1257+12 b) is a Norse undead creature and the world Phobetor (PSR B1257+12 d) is named after the Greek deity of nightmares.

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