Thursday, February 20, 2014

Neutron star spotted moving 5 million mph, trailing particle jet | Ars Technica

Neutron star spotted moving 5 million mph, trailing particle jet | Ars Technica:



"Yesterday, the people who run NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory announced that they had imaged the longest particle jet yet seen in the Milky Way. The jet, seen in the lower right in the image above, has reached this length because its source, a neutron star known as IGR J11014-6103, also happens to be one of the fastest moving neutron stars ever spotted, possibly traveling as fast as eight million kilometers an hour."



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