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Astronomers discover rule-breaking neutron star with an incredibly slow six-hour spin

In our galaxy, about 13,000 light-years away, a dead star called ASKAP J1839-075 is breaking all the rules … extremely slowly.Dead stars — or neutron stars — normally spin at breakneck speeds, but a team of astronomers has clocked the new-found star taking a leisurely six-and-a-half hours to undertake just one spin, which is thousands of times slower than expected."This could really change how we think about neutron star evolution," Yu Wing Joshua Lee, an astronomer from the University of Sydney...

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