Is this the fastest pulsar?
Astronomers think the pulsar shown in this photo (shown in green in the box) is moving at an incredible speed of between 9 million and 11 million kilometres per hour! This could make it the fastest moving pulsar ever known!
Credit:
X-ray: NASA/CXC/UC Berkeley/J.Tomsick et al, Optical: DSS; IR: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF
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