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I was reading about pulsars, and that they do lose mass over time. How fast do they lose their mass?

I have seen somewhere that our sun loses 4 million tons of mass every second. I imagine a pulsar being 1.3 the mass of our sun losing mass faster than our sun.

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    $\begingroup$ A pulsar is a young neutron star, so it's quite different to a main sequence star like the Sun, and has a much smaller surface area. $\endgroup$
    – PM 2Ring
    Commented Sep 18 at 2:28

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