# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BKLC3RDAGW9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736507-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-09-10T10:46:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Astronomers have found evidence for what is likely one of the most extreme pulsars, or rotating neutron stars, ever detected. The source exhibits properties of a highly magnetized neutron star, or magnetar, yet its deduced spin period is thousands of times longer than any pulsar ever observed. For decades, astronomers have known there is a dense, compact source at the center these remains of a supernova explosion located about 9,000 light years from Earth. 
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Amsterdam/N.Rea et al; Optical: DSS

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