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NASA spots gamma-ray-only pulsar

OCT 17, 2008
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The Register : NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as GLAST) has spied the first “gamma-ray-only” pulsar - a 10 000-year-old stellar remnant, which uniquely doesn’t appear to emit pulses at either radio, visible light, or x-ray wavelengths in common with the 1800 or so similar objects cataloged to date.
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