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PSR J0537 6910

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Constellation
  
Dorado

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R136a2, VFTS 102, Melnick 34, HD 37974, VFTS 682

Noether symmetry psr j0537 6910


PSR J0537-6910 is a pulsar that is 4,000 years old (not including the light travel time to Earth). It is located about 170,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation of Dorado, and is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It rotates at 62 Hertz.

Astronomer John Middleditch and his team at LANL have become the first people to predict starquakes; and observe magnetic pole drift on a pulsar; using this pulsar with observational data from Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.

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PSR J0537-6910 Wikipedia