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Pulsar Planets – theoretical and real
Greetings from Eurania. In 1970, astro-physicist and former astronaut F. Curtis Michel published a paper hypothesizing an exoplanet orbiting the Crab Pulsar. Though only a hypothesis, such exoplanets were actually discovered in 1992 by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail, orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. While no such similar discoveries have been made within the Great