Talk:Spider pulsar
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Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Beta Beta Beta (talk) 19:22, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
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Artist's impression of a spider pulsar vaporizing its companion
- ... that spider pulsars (pictured) eat away their stellar mates by irradiating them?
- Source: Misra, Devina; Koljonen, Karri I I; Linares, Manuel (May 15, 2025). "The slowest spinning Galactic-field spider PSR J1932+2121: a history of inefficient mass transfer". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 541 (1): L58–L64. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slaf054. ISSN 1745-3925.
- ALT1: ... that spider pulsars (pictured) eat away their stellar mates by vaporizing them with intense radiation? Source: Misra, Devina; Koljonen, Karri I I; Linares, Manuel (May 15, 2025). "The slowest spinning Galactic-field spider PSR J1932+2121: a history of inefficient mass transfer". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 541 (1): L58–L64. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slaf054. ISSN 1745-3925.
- ALT2: ... that spider pulsars (pictured) are named after cannibalistic species of spiders because they "eat away" their stellar mates? Source: Misra, Devina; Koljonen, Karri I I; Linares, Manuel (May 15, 2025). "The slowest spinning Galactic-field spider PSR J1932+2121: a history of inefficient mass transfer". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 541 (1): L58–L64. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slaf054. ISSN 1745-3925.
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Created by Nrco0e (talk) and Shocksingularity (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.
Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 09:37, 25 August 2026 (UTC).
Great job with this! Article is eligible and in good shape, without evidence of copyvio. QPQ is good. Hook checks out with the source and is pretty dang interesting. I might say "conception pictured" in or something instead of just "pictured" to make it even more clear this is an artist's impression. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:10, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
