Honolulu Star Bulletin - August 21, 2007
Astronomers used the Gemini North observatory on Mauna Kea and space telescopes to discover a rare "isolated neutron star" spraying X-rays in the solar system's cosmic neighborhood, according to an article prepared for the Astrophysical Journal.
Puzzled by some aspects of the astronomers' discovery, and inspired by a movie reference, authors Robert Rutledge, Derek Fox and Andrew Shevchuk named their neutron star "Calvera" after a marauding cinema bandit. Seven other isolated neutron stars had previously been discovered and were named the "Magnificent Seven" after the 1960 movie, in which a character called Calvera was the main bad guy.
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