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SMC X-1 (2U 0115-73)



The most luminous known X-ray pulsar. Located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, it consists of a neutron star and the blue supergiant Sanduleak 160 (type B0I) in a close, 3.89-day-period orbit.


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