Towards the Crab Nebula
06 Sep 2017Robert Phillips
Having spent a bit of time in the Skull and Crossbones nebula, it was time to head towards my next destination - the Crab Pulsar. At approximately 13,000 LY from the Skull and Crossbones, it is a long journey. The only way to travel this distance without space madness setting in was to traverse the field of Neutron stars sitting just above (or, in this case, below) the galactic plane.So, on my way out of the nebula, I take a parting snapshot of a pair of very close orbiting binary moons at 2MASS J07523444-2626443:
Nice.
Then I begin my journey. It is relatively uneventful, except for one exceptional star system - Phroea Phoea GQ-Y d3. This is a Neutron star in a close binary orbit around a Class L dwarf star. Nothing unusual about that. However, orbiting these in *very* close proximity is a small landable moon a mere 47.9 LS away. This provides exceptional views of the Neutron star from the planet's surface:
I decided to stay here and watch the view for a while...