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STRANGE ORBS Aside from their breathtaking spin, millisecond pulsars have several other remarkable traits. Ever since the first millisecond pulsars were discovered in the early 1980s, astronomers have suspected that these compact beasts--rapidly whirling neutron stars--acquired their spin during an earlier stage of evolution, when they stole matter from a companion star. Many astronomers theorize that these millisecond pulsars consist of ancient, slowly rotating neutron stars that a lower-mass companion has spun up to high speed. |
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