Einstein@Home Project Discovers Rare Pulsar

A rare isolated pulsar with a very low magnetic field has been discovered through the use of Einstein@Home, a volunteer-computing initiative. The newly-discovered pulsar - called J2007 - is a neutron star that spins on its axis 41 times per second.  It's located in Vulpecula, a constellation 17,000 light years from Earth. Of more than 1,500 known [...]