Astronomers baffled by weird, fastspinning pulsar Science Health Reuters
Rob Jongschaap , Enschede: May 18 2008
Made Popular May 20 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun — an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects. The...
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We all are aware of the magnetic fields operating in the universe which are the consequent of innumerable neutron star so maybe pulsars are one of them too. Ain’t it a probability?
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The point here is the strange kind of orbit observed:

”Until now, all of the ones found orbiting with another star have been doing so with a white dwarf, another type of dying star. In each case, they shared a perfectly circular orbit. But this one has a very elongated orbit around a star similar in size and composition to our sun. [...] The scientists, writing in the journal Science, speculate a third star — perhaps a neutron star or white dwarf — might be orbiting with the other two. Scientists know of about 100 pulsars in two-star, or binary, systems, and this might be the first in a triple-star system, Ransom said.”
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