For images taken in the field of X-ray, radio, optical astronomers saw the pulsar at which extends the "tail" at the distance 37 light years. It is the longest jet observed in X-ray range nearby in the Milky Way - NASA announces.
Pulsar bears an IGR J1104-6103 and was originally discovered by belonging to the ESA INTEGRAL satellite. Pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star, which is the result of a supernova explosion. The observed object is moving with great speed, away from the center of the nebula, so-called. supernova remnant. At a speed estimated at from about 4 to 8 million km / h is one of the fastest moving in space pulsars.
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