{"id":277410,"date":"2017-02-21T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=97ab72c602e1686349bf8464eb01bb0d"},"modified":"2017-02-21T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:30:00","slug":"ngc-5907-x-1-record-breaking-pulsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=277410","title":{"rendered":"NGC 5907 X-1: record-breaking pulsar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/02\/ngc_5907_x-1_record-breaking_pulsar\/16821937-1-eng-GB\/NGC_5907_X-1_record-breaking_pulsar_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe record-breaking pulsar, identified as NGC 5907 X-1, is in the spiral galaxy NGC 5907, which is also known as the Knife Edge Galaxy or Splinter Galaxy. The image comprises X-ray emission data (blue\/white) from ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton space telescope and NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray observatory, and optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (galaxy and foreground stars).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe inset shows the X-ray pulsation of the spinning neutron star, which has a period of 1.13 s, as determined by XMM-Newton\u2019s European Photon Imaging Camera.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/The_brightest_furthest_pulsar_in_the_Universe\"><i>The brightest, furthest pulsar in the Universe<\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/02\/ngc_5907_x-1_record-breaking_pulsar\/16821937-1-eng-GB\/NGC_5907_X-1_record-breaking_pulsar_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe record-breaking pulsar, identified as NGC 5907 X-1, is in the spiral galaxy NGC 5907, which is also known as the Knife Edge Galaxy or Splinter Galaxy. The image comprises X-ray emission data (blue\/white) from ESA&rsquo;s XMM-Newton space telescope and NASA&rsquo;s Chandra X-ray observatory, and optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (galaxy and foreground stars).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe inset shows the X-ray pulsation of the spinning neutron star, which has a period of 1.13 s, as determined by XMM-Newton&rsquo;s European Photon Imaging Camera.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/The_brightest_furthest_pulsar_in_the_Universe\"><i>The brightest, furthest pulsar in the Universe<\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277411,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277410\/revisions\/277411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}