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2 unusual facts about Matthew Bailes


Carbon planet

In August 2011, Matthew Bailes and his team of experts from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia reported that the millisecond pulsar PSR J1719-1438 may have a binary companion star that has been crushed into a much smaller planet made largely of solid diamond.

Matthew Bailes

He is now leading his team to run-up Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope with a newly designed correlation system for observation of pulsars and Lorimer bursts.



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PSR J1719-1438 b

PSR J1719-1438 was first observed in 2009 by a team headed by Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.