Supernova sends "cannonball" pulsar hurtling at intergalactic speeds

The universe is full of fascinating stories, and NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has just spotted a doozy. About 10,000 years ago a star went supernova, and the explosion managed to shoot the resulting pulsar off like a cannonball, with enough force to send it hurtling out of the galaxy altogether.

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Category: Space

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• Astronomy
• Fermi
• Galaxy
• NASA
• Stars
• Supernova

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