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Chandra Captures Pulsar’s Dramatic Escape from Supernova

Chandra Captures Pulsar’s Dramatic Escape from Supernova

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet – the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy — of high-energy particles. The pulsar, a type of neutron star, is known as IGR J11014-6103. IGR J11014-6103’s peculiar behavior can likely be traced […]

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