A Quick Look at Kes 75
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Channel: Chandra X-ray Observatory · 2018 · Science & Technology
Since scientists discovered pulsars in the 1960s, they have identified over 2,000 of these rapidly spinning, dense stellar cores. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have led to astronomers to the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy. Kes 75 is the expanding debris field of an exploded star located about 19,000 light years from Earth. In the center of Kes 75, a bubble of high-energy particles is moving outward at a remarkable speed of over 2 million miles per hour. Information about Kes 75 from Chandra and other telescopes is helping astronomers get insight into the exploded star and its environment.
