The Ultimate Star Trek Nerd Post

Star Trek, Astronomical, Cosmological, Planetary Physics terms you have got to know.

1. Parsec Contraction of “parallax second”; Distance – “parallax – apparent motion -- of one arc second”; astronomical unit of length where the earth’s orbit extends an angle of one arcsecond; 19 trillion miles, 3.26 ly
2. Pulsar - A neutron star that puts out pulses of radio energy. A pulsar is a neutron star that is emitting a beam of radio waves, and spinning, and so the effect is like that of a lighthouse. Pulsars keep exceptionally good time. Most of them ‘pulse’ at a rate between ten times a second and once every three seconds; some spin around hundreds of times a second.
3. FUA
4. The Vicinity of Our Universe