Astronomers discovered a young pulsar in a distant dwarf galaxy
It appeared in the sky no more than 14 years ago.
One of the youngest neutron stars has been found in a dwarf galaxy 395 million light-years from Earth. The object, designated VT 1137-0337, first appeared in survey data in January 2018, while it was absent from images of the same region of the sky in 1998.
The object resides in the dwarf galaxy SDSS J113706.18-033737.1,
a star-forming galaxy that is experiencing a burst of star formation. Its mass is estimated to be about 100 million solar.
