| The object is being stimulated by jets from a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar. |
| A pulsar, of course, beeps with a regular beat, but it also has a sort of echo. |
| Most millisecond pulsars hover around the 300 revolutions per second mark, and the fastest spinning pulsar ever detected clocked in at 641 rps. |
| Sifting through these observations, they were able to detect the white dwarf orbiting the pulsar and measure its color and temperature. |
| The tick of this pulsar clock is very regular, a sharp pulse every 0.059 second. |
| The planet, more than twice the size of Jupiter, orbits two stars, a pulsar and a white dwarf that linked together about a billion years ago. |
