In 2014,astronomers discovered the millisecond pulsar PSR J0337+1715 in the constellation Taurus.What is so significant about this discovery?
A) It is a neutron star with a mass more than a thousand times the mass of the Sun.
B) It is the result of two neutron stars that collided with each other.
C) It is a pulsar that was not precessing and, in fact, that aimed its radiation beam directly at Earth.
D) The pulsar is in an orbiting system with two white dwarfs.
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