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Uncommon pulsar 22 EP

J1434+7257

RA 218.4989° · Dec 72.9574° · pulsar

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
22 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Pulsar +22
Total score 22

12 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Pulsar · +22

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Surface speed. Its equator is moving at roughly 1% of the speed of light. Spin it much faster and it would tear itself apart.

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.

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.
  • Reading the fog. Its dispersion measure is 12.6 — a count of the free electrons in every column of space between here and there. Those electrons slow the low-frequency pulses more than the high ones, and that lag is how its distance is worked out.

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 April — 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
4848568290
dm
12.605
name
J1434+7257
period ms
41.7411

Nearby objects

About J1434+7257

J1434+7257 is an uncommon pulsar. It spins once every 41.741 ms, has a dispersion measure of 12.61 pc cm⁻³ and carries a surface magnetic field around 4.85×10^9 G.

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.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, J1434+7257 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 J1434+7257 is an uncommon pulsar

J1434+7257 scores 22 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — Pulsar — 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.