Wepaa BA-A g1712 (Ammutseba) [#114907017814]
This system is located at:
-9516.625
/ -905.15625
/ 23747.90625
Galactic coordinates:
R: 25,599.776 / l: 21.838 / b: -2.026
Equatorial coordinates:
Right ascension: 18h 38m 18.861s /
Declination: -10° 47'36.505''
Reserve level: Pristine
Estimated value: 112,887 cr
This system was visited for the first time on EDSM by Bellisarius.
It was named by the Galactic Mapping Project with the name of: Ammutseba
37 ships passed through Wepaa BA-A g1712 space, including 0 ship in the last 7 days.
0 ship passed through Wepaa BA-A g1712 space in the last 24 hours.
The major feature of this system is a black hole and a giant neutron star in a close binary orbit, thus lending the system its name -- Ammutseba, the Devourer of Stars. The Ammutseba Black Hole / Neutron Star Binary System, or Ammutseba for short, serves as a fantastic case study on the effects of gravitational lensing between two hyper-dense objects and how said lensing only affects far-away objects, whilst leaving nearby objects undistorted. These two stellar objects orbit each other rapidly, with an orbital period of a mere 0.5 days, fast enough to detect with the naked eye.
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