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Artist’s concept of the pulsar and its planet. The system could fit into our Sun, represented by the yellow surface.<\/p>Artist’s concept of the pulsar and its planet. The system could fit into our Sun, represented by the yellow surface.<\/p>
What’s the News:<\/strong> An international team of astronomers has found an exotic planet possibly made of diamond<\/a>, located about 4,000 light-years away from Earth. The researchers believe that the unusual planet was once a sun-like star, transformed into its current state by its hungry stellar companion, a millisecond pulsar<\/a>.<\/p> How the Heck:<\/strong><\/p> When a massive star dies in a supernova<\/a>, it sometimes collapses into a pulsar<\/a>, a highly compacted stellar corpse that emits periodic beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles. If a pulsar is part of a binary system<\/a>, it can feed on its nearby stellar friend and speed up its spin to hundreds of rotations per second, effectively becoming a millisecond pulsar. (About 30% of millisecond pulsars found are solitary—astronomers don’t know how they formed.) Artist’s concept of the pulsar and its planet. The system could fit into our Sun, represented by the yellow surface.What’s the News: An international team of astronomers has found an exotic planet possibly made of diamond, located about 4,000 light-years … Continue reading
Astronomers detected the pulsar, known as PSR J1719-1438, during a large ...<\/p><\/a>
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