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Green Circle Marks Pulsar Orbited by Oldest Known Planet (B1620-26, M4, Messier 4, NGC 6121) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Green Circle Marks Pulsar Orbited by Oldest Known Planet

July 10, 2003 · NASA · B1620-26, M4, Messier 4, NGC 6121 · Scorpius

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About the data

Data for this release was taken from HST proposals 5461 and 8679 together with archived observations from HST proposal 8153 . The full team involved in this discovery is composed of Brad Hansen (UCLA), Harvey Richer (UBC), Steinn Sigurdsson (Penn State), Ingrid Stairs (UBC) and Stephen Thorsett (UCSC).

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