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"content": "1 in 100 billion! (well, so far ....)\n\nThere is one, and ONLY one of these systems we know about. It features two neutron stars, both pulsars. In even better news, both of these pulsar beams shine in our direction - so we can study the light of one as it passes through the powerful magnetic field of the other. \n\nThat's what Dr Marcus Lower from Swinburne University of Technology and his team did - they used the extremely sensitive MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to study the light, and polarization of one pulsar's beam as it passed through the magnetic field of the other.\n\nThis is extreme astrophysics at its best.\n\nThere is very much likely more double pulsars out there, but maybe only one beams at us, or none beam at us.\n\nSo, this is the only one we have so far .... \n\nMy latest for #SpaceAustralia \n\nhttps://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/unveiling-extreme-physics-galaxys-only-double-pulsar-system\n\n📸M. Kramer/MPIfR\n\n#Astrophysics #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #Astrodon #Science\n\nhttps://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/113/551/293/785/624/775/original/1627e86bce45e0b6.png",
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