The Magnificent Seven (neutron stars)

The Magnificent Seven is the informal name of a group of young cooling isolated neutron stars at a distance of 120 to 500 parsecs from Earth. These objects are also known under the names XDINS (X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars) or simply XINS. == History == The first to fit this classification was RX J1856.5-3754, which was discovered by Walter et al.