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4U 0142+61 is a magnetar at an approximate distance of 13000 [[light-years]] from Earth located in the constellation Cassiopeia.In an article published in Nature on April 6 2006 Deepto Chakrabarty et al. of MIT revealed that a circumstellar disk was discovered around the pulsar. This may prove that pulsar planets are common around neutron stars. The debris disk is likely to be composed of mainly heavier metals. The star had undergone a supernova event approximately 100000 years ago.
