cool video of a pulsar
http://www.space.com/19166-fast-spin...ets-video.html
A pulsar is a spinning collapsed star, one that did not have enough mass to go supernova. This one is 12 miles across, dense as all fuck, and spinning at a rate of 11 times a second. It is spitting out jets of plasma that can be plainly seen in the video. fucking awesome.