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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?

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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.)

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