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| [00:00:04.06] | [Bwaaam] |
| [00:00:08.11] | [Bwaaam] |
| [00:00:12.12] | [Bwaam] When we started watching it, we |
| [00:00:16.15] | had no idea how dynamic this system was. [Music] |
| [00:00:20.19] | [Music] |
| [00:00:24.20] | We still don't know what it's capable of. [Whoosh] |
| [00:00:28.25] | [Bwaaam] The only way these readings make |
| [00:00:32.28] | sense is if this pulsar is orbiting a star. |
| [00:00:36.34] | We've never seen one in an orbit this long. The binary |
| [00:00:40.34] | companion is one of the brightest stars in our galaxy, and the pulsar is going to |
| [00:00:44.36] | pass incredibly close to it! This pulsar has been |
| [00:00:48.43] | accelerating for the last ten years, and it's still speeding up. |
| [00:00:52.45] | [Bwaam] |
| [00:00:56.54] | When it passes through the companion star's disk, we're gonna see some serious |
| [00:01:00.57] | gamma-ray emission. Fermi will be watching in |
| [00:01:04.62] | gamma rays. It has the tools. |
| [00:01:08.68] | [Music] |
| [00:01:12.73] | [Music] |
| [00:01:16.78] | There's so much we can learn from this. |
| [00:01:20.84] | [Music] |
| [00:01:24.88] | [Wwraum] |
| [00:01:28.90] | We're going to need a bigger hard drive |
| [00:01:32.94] | [Wwraum] [indistinct radio voices] |
| [00:01:37.01] | [indistinct radio voices] |
| [00:01:41.05] | [Beeping] |
| [00:01:45.12] | [Beeping] |
| [00:01:49.17] | [Beeping] |