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    Pulsars

    Artist's impression of a pulsar. Credit: NASA
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    What is a pulsar? A complete guide to spinning neutron stars

    An artist’s impression of a habitable exoplanet orbiting a pulsar. Image Credit: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
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    Habitable planets may exist round pulsars

    Below this artist's illustration are three images captured by Chandra showing evidence that a clump of material has been blasted out of a double star system at high speeds. X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/G.Pavlov et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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    Pulsar punches hole in companion star disc

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    An image showing spiral galaxy NGC 5907, in which the record breaking pulsar resides. The inset box shows how the pulsar takes just 1.13 seconds to complete one spin. Copyright: ESA/XMM-Newton; NASA/Chandra and SDSS
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    Brightest, farthest pulsar ever detected

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    Rare stellar encounter will create fireworks

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    Exoplanet Excursions: January 2014

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