System
Centaurus X-3 is located in the galactic plane about 5.7 kiloparsecs away, towards the direction of the Carina Spiral Arm, and is a member of an occulting spectroscopic binary system. The visible component is Krzeminski's Star, a supergiant; the X-ray component is a rotating, magnetized neutron star.
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