Rare pulsar detected in the Milky Way

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> The discovery of the crystals is so old, and further wavelength observations are continuing.

I'm utterly confused here. There are no other mentions of "crystals" in this article, but several mentions of x-rays. It's an X-ray pulsar, so I don't see where crystals fit in unless the writer is confused by X-ray crystallography.

Was this article generated by some kind of AI or Markov chain text generator?

I think the author started with a separate article and was using at as template. They forgot to replace one of the sentences with something actually relevant.

1. Breathless nonsense

2. Back story of authors

3. The uphill climb making them seem like underdogs

4. Finally state the few sentences of actual news

5. Describe the impact on the community, which amounts to repeating the lede

(You get the idea.)

Do pulsars have to be oriented to point at Earth to be discovered? There may be many more in the Milky Way that beam their signals in other directions.

TFA: It's an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. Only 18 others have been discovered.

I despise click-bait headlines like that. I loathe lazy grammar.

Rare = "Ultra-Rare"

There is no need to add extra flair to the sentence, as it does not help or inform in any way. The only thing missing was a thumbnail of an astronomer with a `mouth-agape` shocked look on their face.

I don't care about HN Title policy, I do care about sensationalism and poor editing (if it even exists).

Ok, we've de-ultra'd the title above.

(Btw, you may have a mistaken understanding about HN's title rule. This is what it says: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". If a title is click-bait, it shouldn't be used.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Pulsar. The object is a pulsar.

Ok, we've put a pulsar in the title above.

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