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Pulsar Blasts Through a Ring of Gas
The radio pulsar PSR B1259-63. Image credit: ESA Click to enlarge ESA astronomers have witnessed something very unusual; a pulsar crashing through a ring of gas surrounding a companion star. As the pulsar passed through ring, it lit up the area in gamma and X-rays, visible to ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory. This companion star is several … Continue reading "Pulsar Blasts Through a Ring of Gas"
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