Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that blast out pulses of radiation at regular intervals ranging from seconds to milliseconds. Pulsars have strong magnetic fields that funnel particles along their magnetic poles accelerating them to relativistic speeds, which produces two powerful beams of light, one from each pole. According to the University of California, because the poles of the magnetic field aren't aligned with the axis of spin of the pulsar, the beams of particles and the light