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Artist's impression of binary pulsar PSR J0737-3039.

The two pulsars are not shown to scale: if they were depicted as the size of marbles, they would be 225 m (750 ft) apart.

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Artistic impression of the two pulsars orbiting around the common centre of mass in 2.4 hours. The faster rotating pulsar spins 45 times per second or almost 3000 times per minute. In the same time, the slower rotating pulsar spins only 22 times or every 2.8 seconds.

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http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/doublepulsar/ (press release)
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/doublepulsar/still1_large.jpg

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