radio beam

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To detect the spiraling pairs, observers train large radio telescopes on dozens of pulsars—collapsed stars emitting radio beams that, as the pulsar spins, appear as pulses with clocklike regularity.

From Science Magazine

The stars, collapsed stellar remnants made of tightly packed neutrons, are called pulsars because as they spin, they emit radio beams that sweep past Earth like a lighthouse.

From Science Magazine

Those fields power pulsars, which sweep a radio beam past Earth at regular intervals as they spin.

From Science Magazine

Connery answers diffidently: “A little. It’s throwing the gyroscopic controls of a guided missile off balance with a … a radio beam or something, isn’t it?”

From New York Times

Instead, a powerful radio beam could be used for military purposes or might be generated to push a light sail and launch a massive cargo close to the speed of light.

From Scientific American