PSR B0329+54 [SEP] constellation
PSR B0329+54
PSR B0329+54 is a pulsar approximately 3,460 light-years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis. It completes one rotation every 0.71452 seconds and is approximately 5 million years old.
The emissions of this pulsar and the Vela Pulsar were converted into audible sound by the French composer Gérard Grisey, and used as such in the piece "Le noir de l'étoile" (1989–90).
Planetary system.
In 1979, two extrasolar planets were announced to be orbiting the pulsar (being classified as
. The pulsar is extremely hot, with a surface temperature of up to around 28,856 K. It formed about one to three billion years ago as the result of a white dwarf transforming into a rapidly spinning neutron star during the process of two white dwarfs merging with each other.
The discovery stimulated a search for planets orbiting other pulsars, but it turned out such planets are rare; only four other pulsar planets, orbiting PSR B1620−26, PSR B0943+10, and PSR B0329+54, have been confirmed.
Planetary