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A Bubble in Space, Shooting

From Astronomy Picture of the Day for 13/8/19.

This shows the trail of a pulsar (PSR J0002+6216) – travelling at a speed greater than 1,000 kilometres a second – after it had been shot out from a supernova. The bubble it appears to come from is the expanding remnant of the supernova.

The picture is a combination of radio and infra-red data.

Pulsar J0002

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