{"id":140767,"date":"2022-06-18T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T21:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-young-pulsar-is-blazing-through-our-galaxy-at-a-speed-of-over-a-million-miles-per-hour"},"modified":"2022-06-18T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T21:03:27","slug":"a-young-pulsar-is-blazing-through-our-galaxy-at-a-speed-of-over-a-million-miles-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-young-pulsar-is-blazing-through-our-galaxy-at-a-speed-of-over-a-million-miles-per-hour","title":{"rendered":"A young pulsar is blazing through our galaxy at a speed of over a million miles per hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-young-pulsar-is-blazing-through-our-galaxy-at-a-speed-of-over-a-million-miles-per-hour.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, highly dense stars composed almost entirely of neutrons. They are formed when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/understanding-process-massive-stars-live-die\/46932\/\">massive stars run out of fuel<\/a>, collapse, and explode.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory spotted a young pulsar blazing through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/milky-way\/\">Milky Way<\/a> at a speed of around a million miles per hour. This pulsar is one of the fastest objects of its kind ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Chandra observed the pulsar racing through the remnants of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/supernova\/\">supernova<\/a> that formed it, G292.0+1.8, around 20,000 light-years away from Earth. The speed of this pulsar is almost 30% higher than a previous estimate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/nasas-fermi-satellite-clocks-cannonball-pulsar-speeding-space\/21762\/\">pulsar\u2019s speed<\/a>. This speed indicates that the G292.0+1.8 and its pulsar may be significantly younger than astronomers previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, highly dense stars composed almost entirely of neutrons. They are formed when massive stars run out of fuel, collapse, and explode. Recently, NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory spotted a young pulsar blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of around a million miles per hour. This pulsar is one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}