NASA X-ray telescope 'weighs' the closest rapidly spinning dead star to Earth

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NASA's ISS-mounted X-ray telescope NICER has weighed and measured the closest pulsar to Earth. The neutron star PSR J0437 spins 174 times a second and has a mass of 1.4 suns.

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The pulsar PSR JO437 has a different feature regarding to larger radius in comparison to the mass,at the same time when magnetic poles are not situted exactly at the two ends of a diametric stright linear axis.