About J1748-2446ad
J1748-2446ad is a mythic pulsar. It spins once every 1.396 ms and has a dispersion measure of 235.6 pc cm⁻³.
Among the fastest-spinning objects known — hundreds of rotations per second.
Mythic pulsar 104 EP
J1748-2446ad
RA 267.0200° · Dec -24.7792° · pulsar
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesMythic Top tier reached ✦
- Record-breaking spin +50
- Pulsar +22
- Millisecond pulsar +20
- Binary pulsar +12
Total score 104
Badges
- Pulsar · +22
- Millisecond pulsar · +20
- Record-breaking spin · +50
- Binary pulsar · +12
Trivia
What makes it special
- Record spin. Among the fastest-spinning objects known — hundreds of rotations per second.
By the numbers
- Spin. It whirls around 716 times every second.
- Density. A sugar-cube of its core would weigh about a billion tonnes.
Properties
- binary
- yes
- dm
- 235.6
- name
- J1748-2446ad
- period ms
- 1.396
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, J1748-2446ad 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 J1748-2446ad is a mythic pulsar
J1748-2446ad scores 104 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the mythic tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Pulsar, Millisecond pulsar, Record-breaking spin and Binary 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.