BRENT: A team of high school students have discovered a previously unseen pulsar—a rapidly spinning neutron star—which happens to have the widest orbit ever detected of any pulsar orbiting a neutron star, according to a National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) press release. Its orbital path spans roughly 52 million kilometers, which is roughly the distance from Mercury to the Sun. Joe Swiggum, a graduate student in astronomy and physics at West Virginia University who recently had a paper pertaining to the implications of the recently discovered pulsar accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, was quoted in the release published on Friday as having said that the “discovery shows one of these objects in a really unique set of circumstances.”
The recently discovered pulsar, or rapidly spinning neutron star, was discovered through the analysis of data derived from the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT)— which is capable of capturing the pulse of radio waves such as those emit by pulsars. The official designation of the pulsar discovered by then high school students Cecilia McGough and De’Shang Ray is PSR J1930-1852.
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