Editing Neutron star (section)

==Planets==
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Neutron stars can host [[exoplanet]]s. These can be original, [[circumbinary planet|circumbinary]], captured, or the result of a second round of planet formation. Pulsars can also strip the atmosphere off from a star, leaving a planetary-mass remnant, which may be understood as a [[chthonian planet]] or a stellar object depending on interpretation. For pulsars, such [[pulsar planet]]s can be detected with the [[pulsar timing method]], which allows for high precision and detection of much smaller planets than with other methods. Two systems have been definitively confirmed. The first exoplanets ever to be detected were the three planets [[PSR B1257+12 A|Draugr]], [[PSR B1257+12 B|Poltergeist]] and [[PSR B1257+12 C|Phobetor]] around the pulsar [[PSR B1257+12|Lich]], discovered in 1992–1994. Of these, Draugr is the smallest exoplanet ever detected, at a mass of twice that of the Moon. Another system is [[PSR B1620−26]], where a [[circumbinary planet]] orbits a neutron star-white dwarf binary system. Also, there are several unconfirmed candidates. Pulsar planets receive little visible light, but massive amounts of ionizing radiation and high-energy stellar wind, which makes them rather hostile environments to life as presently understood.