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ESA’s XMM-Newton has found a pulsar – the spinning remains of a once-massive sta…

ESA’s XMM-Newton has found a pulsar – the spinning remains of a once-massive star – that is a thousand times brighter than previously thought possible. The pulsar is also the most distant of its kind ever detected, with its light travelling 50 million light-years before being detected by XMM-Newton. See http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/The_brightest_furthest_pulsar_in_the_Universe