Distant ‘galaxy’ revealed to be a massive pulsar
Jun 09, 2022
2 minutes
WORDS BRANDON SPECKTOR
speck of light that scientists once wrote off as a distant galaxy may actually be the brightest pulsar ever detected outside the Milky Way. Named PSR J0523-7125 and located about 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud – a satellite galaxy that
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