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M28 is a globular cluster located 17,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764.
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The cluster appears as a faint patch of light through a pair of binoculars.
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The month of August is the best time to view M28 and its roughly 50,000 stars.
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M28 is known as the first globular cluster to host a millisecond pulsar, PSR B1821–24, a rapidly spinning neutron star emitting lighthouse-like beams of radiation.
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This makes it appear to be pulsing to observers on Earth.
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PSR B1821–24 was discovered in 1986 using a radio telescope in England called the Lovell Telescope.
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