File:3C58 xray.jpg

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English: Chandra's image of 3C58, the remains of a supernova, shows a rapidly rotating neutron star embedded in a cloud of high-energy particles. The data revealed that the neutron star, or pulsar, is rotating about 15 times a second, and is slowing down at the rate of about 10 microseconds per year.
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Source http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2001/0022/index.html
Author NASA/CXC/SAO/S.Murray et al.
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