The James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a world that looks more like a squeezed citrus fruit than a planet, a distorted exoplanet locked in a frantic orbit around a rapidly spinning pulsar.

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Pulsars are superlative cosmic beacons. These compact neutron stars rotate about their axes many times per second, emitting radio waves and gamma radiation into space. Using ingenious data analysis ...