A newly discovered pulsar has the widest orbit ever discovered around a neutron star and is part of a rare double neutron star system, and could help astronomers gain new insight as to how such systems form and evolve, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has announced.
Perhaps more impressively, the discovery (reported in a paper scheduled for publication in an upcoming edition of The Astrophysical Journal) was made by a pair of high school students who were analyzing data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia.
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