PSR J1856-3754 (Coronet Pulsar) [#7143420517]
This system is located at:
12.09375
/ -154.375
/ 498.09375
Galactic coordinates:
R: 521,608 / l: 358,609 / b: -17,215
Equatorial coordinates:
Right ascension: 18h 56m 36,676s /
Declination: -37° 54'2,612''
Habitable zone:
Metal-rich body (0 to 6.413.298 ls), Earth-like world (100.958.491 to 151.419.124 ls), Water world (82.785.770 to 320.614.565 ls), Ammonia world (209.468.068 to 569.981.448 ls), Terraformable (78.634.175 to 156.899.919 ls)
Estimated value: 52.720 cr
This system was visited for the first time on EDSM by big_bad_lynx.
It was named by the Galactic Mapping Project with the name of: Coronet Pulsar
2367 ships passed through PSR J1856-3754 space, including 2 ships in the last 7 days.
0 ship passed through PSR J1856-3754 space in the last 24 hours.
The 'Coronet' Pulsar is the colloquial term for the double neutron star system of PSR J1856-3754, the closest pulsar to Sol with a mere 521 light years. It lies in the Corona Austrinae molecular cloud and is associated with the so-called Coronet Cluster (CrA), a small cluster of young stars embedded in a small emission nebula (R CrA/NGC 6729) in that same region. The pulsar is also a member of the Magnificent Seven, a group of isolated neutron stars that are all relatively close to Sol and fall in line with the Gould Belt.
The pulsar was once suspected to be a quark star, a hypothetical type of compact exotic star composed of quark matter, where extremely high temperature and pressure forces nuclear particles to dissolve into a continuous phase consisting of free quarks. Later observations determined it did not have sufficient temperature and size for this type of star.
Survey in July 3303 revealed that the system is actually two pulsars in close orbit, along with a companion B-class star and two L-class dwarves. The primary pulsar is currently the hottest known stellar object, with a surface temperature of 985,067,520 kelvin.
