pulsation

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"Giant convective bubbles, stellar pulsations, or dramatic episodes of dust formation could all help explain how these winds are launched."

From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026

“The Cameroonian soul is a battlefield,” one character observes; another beseeches God to hear his “prayer of this bloodied land, of this family whose very heart was caught up in the pulsations of a country.”

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

A neutron star with an extreme magnetic field, a magnetar, could potentially power the radio pulsations, the researchers said.

From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2022

The star DMPP-2 hosts a planet with a mass roughly half that of Jupiter in a five-day orbit; the world had been overlooked because of DMPP-2's stellar pulsations.

From Scientific American • Dec. 23, 2019

His mouth filled with frothy saliva; no perceptible pulsations in the radial artery; but little external heat and very imperfect respiration.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover