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MeerKAT finds 15 new pulsars in 47 Tucanae

A radio telescope in South Africa has pushed one of astronomy’s favorite crowded neighborhoods into a new phase of scrutiny. Using MeerKAT, the TRAPUM collaboration has found 15 new millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, lifting the known total there from 27 to 42 and ending a long stretch in which the system […]