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Pulsar punches hole in stellar disk | Astronomy.com
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward.
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Not only is the illustration pretty awesome, but the Chandra imagery is even more stunning to me. Just blows my mind that we can watch something like this from 7500ly away, and be able to interpret what we're looking at.