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For the first time ever, the surface of a pulsar has been mapped using NASA's NICER X-ray telescope. NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) made the first surface map of the pulsar PSR J0030+0451, a millisecond pulsar located 1100 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. But the surface maps don't look like the traditional magnetic dipole model we're used to. Instead, two - or three - X-ray hotspots were all found in the pulsar's south polar region!

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NASA Press Release: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...
T. E. Riley et al. 2019 ApJL 887 L21 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
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