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NASA X-ray telescope ‘weighs’ the closest rapidly spinning dead star to Earth

Submit on Monday, July 22nd, 2024 21:11

NASA’s ISS-mounted X-ray telescope NICER has weighed and measured the closest pulsar to Earth. The neutron star PSR J0437 spins 174 times a second and has a mass of 1.4 suns.

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