About J0146+6145
J0146+6145 is an anomaly pulsar. It spins once every 8,688.994 ms and carries a surface magnetic field around 1.33×10^14 G.
The most magnetic object known in the universe — it could wipe a credit card from halfway to the Moon.
Anomaly pulsar 82 EP
J0146+6145
RA 26.5934° · Dec 61.7508° · pulsar
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesAnomaly 120 pts → Mythic
- Magnetar +60
- Pulsar +22
Total score 82
38 more points to reach Mythic.
Badges
- Pulsar · +22
- Magnetar · +60
Trivia
What makes it special
- Magnetar. The most magnetic object known in the universe — it could wipe a credit card from halfway to the Moon.
Handle with care
- Its gravity. Surface gravity is around 190 billion times Earth's. A fall of one metre would end at roughly a tenth of the speed of light.
- Do not approach. Inside a thousand kilometres its field would pull the atoms in your body into thin needles and shut down every chemical reaction keeping you alive. It is lethal long before its gravity is.
What it actually is
- What it is. The collapsed core of a star that exploded: about one and a half Suns of matter crushed into a ball the size of a city, held up only by the refusal of neutrons to be squeezed further.
Find it in the sky
- Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — that's when to go looking.
Standing on it
- Why we can see it. We only know about it because its beam happens to sweep across the Earth. Most of the galaxy's pulsars are pointing somewhere else and are invisible to us.
By the numbers
- Density. A sugar-cube of its core would weigh about a billion tonnes — as much as every car on Earth put together.
Properties
- bsurf
- 133169936400000
- magnetar
- yes
- name
- J0146+6145
- period ms
- 8688.9941
Nearby objects
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, J0146+6145 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why J0146+6145 is an anomaly pulsar
J0146+6145 scores 82 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 38 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Pulsar and Magnetar — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.