Over a Million Miles per Hour: NASA's Chandra Catches Pulsar in X-Ray Speed Trap - SciTechDaily

A pulsar is racing through the debris of an exploded star at a speed of over a million miles per hour. To measure this, researchers compared NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory images of G292.0+1.8 taken in 2006 and 2016. Pulsars can form when massive stars run ou…

This result may help explain how some pulsars are accelerated to such remarkably high speeds.The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour. This image fea… [+5254 chars]

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