{"id":198669,"date":"2024-11-01T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/astronomers-uncover-one-of-the-fastest-spinning-neutron-stars-in-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2024-11-01T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:29:38","slug":"astronomers-uncover-one-of-the-fastest-spinning-neutron-stars-in-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/astronomers-uncover-one-of-the-fastest-spinning-neutron-stars-in-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Uncover One of the Fastest-Spinning Neutron Stars in the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-uncover-one-of-the-fastest-spinning-neutron-stars-in-the-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered one of the fastest-spinning neutron stars ever recorded, known as 4U 1820\u201330, which rotates an astonishing 716 times per second. Located 26,000 light-years away in the Sagittarius constellation, this neutron star is part of an X-ray binary system where its intense gravity pulls material from a companion white dwarf, triggering explosive thermonuclear bursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered one of the fastest-spinning neutron stars ever recorded, known as 4U 1820\u201330, which rotates an astonishing 716 times per second. Located 26,000 light-years away in the Sagittarius constellation, this neutron star is part of an X-ray binary system where its intense gravity pulls material from a companion white dwarf, triggering explosive thermonuclear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}