Info STRANGE OBJECT - CIRCLING A NEUTRON STAR

A strangest planet-massbody is detected orbiting a neutron star on September 7, 2007 by NASA's Swift and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellites.The odd mass is about 230,000 miles (370,149 kilometers) far from the star

The exciting fact is that it circling around a orbits a rapidly spinning pulsar, or neutron star of spining speed of hundreds of times a second

The star siphons off gas from the orbiting body, as seen in the above artist's illustration. The gas comes out irregularly cause the bright outburst that is even visible from theEarth.



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According to the Astronomers this system was 2 stars billions of years ago. the smallerone becoems the red giant and the bigger one went away to supernova. However it can't be assumed that the smaler one will survive much longer.

Hans Krimm from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said "It's been taking a beating,But that's part of nature."