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[Bwaaam]

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[Bwaaam]

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[Bwaam] When we started watching it, we

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had no idea how dynamic this system was. [Music]

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[Music]

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We still don't know what it's capable of. [Whoosh]

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[Bwaaam] The only way these readings make

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sense is if this pulsar is orbiting a star.

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We've never seen one in an orbit this long. The binary

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companion is one of the brightest stars in our galaxy, and the pulsar is going to

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pass incredibly close to it! This pulsar has been

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accelerating for the last ten years, and it's still speeding up.

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[Bwaam]

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When it passes through the companion star's disk, we're gonna see some serious

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gamma-ray emission. Fermi will be watching in

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gamma rays. It has the tools.

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[Music]

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[Music]

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There's so much we can learn from this.

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[Music]

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[Wwraum]

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We're going to need a bigger hard drive

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[Wwraum] [indistinct radio voices]

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[indistinct radio voices]

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[Beeping]

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[Beeping]

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[Beeping]