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The 12.4 mile-wide object has been cloaked in mystery since it was identified as a powerful X-ray source in 1999.

Astronomers now know the source is a neutron star 11,000 light years from Earth at the centre of the supernova Cassiopeia A.

It is the youngest object of its kind ever discovered, having appeared just 330 years ago.

(Telegraph)

Posted November 5, 2009

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Dean Whitbread is a writer, composer, producer, and well-known podcaster.

From humble beginnings at the birth of web media, having been the first to climb many peaks across the vast and sometimes treacherous internet mountain range, he now runs Small Pictures which makes internet and mobile media for creative luminaries, composes music, teaches people how to do what he does, and writes half a dozen blogs.

Dean lives and works in London, UK.

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