{"id":3614,"date":"2023-01-30T05:43:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:15:58","slug":"what-is-a-spider-star-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-spider-star-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Spider Star System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Spider Star System:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>binary star system<\/strong> in which <strong>a superdense star (pulsar) spins quickly, eats another star.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The super-dense object that begins to pull a matter from the companion <strong>resembles the habits of spiders of the genus Latrodectus,<\/strong> in which the female eats the male after mating, hence the name came.<\/li>\n<li>Initially, the <strong>dense pulsar strips material from the outer atmosphere of its companion<\/strong>, periodically shedding the gathered material in violent explosions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>later stage<\/strong> of their lifetimes, the <strong>energetic particles streaming out<\/strong> of the pulsar can <strong>strip the atmosphere of its companion.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In either case, the <strong>pulsar slowly erodes its companion over time.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two Types:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Black widows:<\/strong> Binary pulsar systems, in which the <strong>mass of a companion star is less than 5 percent of the pulsar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Redback:<\/strong> Binary pulsar systems in which mass of the <strong>companion star is from 10 to 50 percent of the pulsar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is a Binary Star System?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A binary system is one in which <strong>two stars orbit around a common centre of mass<\/strong>, that is they are <strong>gravitationally bound to each other.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are Pulsars?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pulsars are <strong>rapidly spinning neutron stars<\/strong>, <strong>extremely dense stars<\/strong> composed almost <strong>entirely of neutrons<\/strong> and having a <strong>diameter of only 20 km (12 miles) or less.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>emit concentrated streams of radiation<\/strong> far across the cosmos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<strong>What are Neutron Stars?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are the <strong>remnants of giant stars that died in a fiery explosion known as a supernova.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>After such an outburst, the <strong>cores of these former stars compact into an ultradense object<\/strong> with the mass of the sun packed into a ball the size of a city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>What is a supernova?<\/h3>\n<p>A supernova is what happens when a star has reached the end of its life and explodes in a brilliant burst of light. Supernovae can briefly outshine entire galaxies(opens in new tab) and radiate more energy than our sun(opens in new tab) will in its entire lifetime. They&#8217;re also the primary source of heavy elements in the universe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spider-system-pulsar-gamma-ray-eclipses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists spot 1st gamma-ray eclipses from strange &#8216;spider&#8217; star systems<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spider Star System is a binary star system in which a superdense star spins quickly, eats another star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}