A NEWLY DISCOVERED

A NEWLY DISCOVERED pulsing object near the center of the universe may show a star near death. The ``bursting pulsar,'' which emits X-ray and gamma-ray radiation in regular and erratic pulses, was spotted in December by the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Astronomers describe it as the last...

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