{"id":2888,"date":"2011-08-26T11:09:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:12:55","slug":"diamonds-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/space\/diamonds-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 512px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PulsarPlanet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2893 \" title=\"PulsarPlanet\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PulsarPlanet-e1314317779991.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PulsarPlanet-e1314317779991.jpg 654w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PulsarPlanet-e1314317779991-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulsar planet. Image credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Meet the newly found pulsar and its carbon-made companion. <!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers led by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swinburne.edu.au\/chancellery\/mediacentre\/media-centre\/view-expert\/matthew-bailes\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Matthew Bailes<\/a>, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, found\u00a0a millisecond pulsar using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au\/\">CSIRO Parkes<\/a> radio telescope. The newly discovered pulsar, known as PSR JI719-1438, has a companion, a planet that orbits the pulsar in two hours and ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The planet is small \u2014 less than 60,000km \u2014 and has slightly more mass than Jupiter. Given its density, the researchers believe it is crystalline and similar to a diamond.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;\u02dcdiamon planet&#8217; is what remains of a massive star that once collided with J1719-1438. The pulsar has a mass 1.4 times that of the Sun and rotates more than 10,000 times per minute. This binary system (name given to any two objects in space orbiting a common centre of mass) exists some 4,000 light&#8221;\u0090years away in the constellation of Serpens.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the pulsar and its &#8220;\u02dcdiamond planet&#8217; on this video: <a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/production\/pulsar\/PulsarPlanet_Large_H264.mp4\">PulsarPlanet_Large_H264.mp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swinburne.edu.au\/\">Swinburne University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the newly found pulsar and its carbon-made companion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,29,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-night-sky","category-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}