File:Chandra cometpulsar zoom.jpg

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English: The Chandra image shown (an enlargement of the "Chandra Close-up") reveals a comet-shaped X-ray source well outside the boundary of the supernova remnant. This source consists of a point-like object with a long tail trailing behind it for about 3 light years. ... The point-like X-ray source was discovered by the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, or INTEGRAL, and is called IGR J11014-6103 (or IGR J11014 for short). ... The elongated emission is pointing towards the center of MSH 11-61A where the pulsar would have been formed.
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Source Chandra X-ray Observatory website, url=http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/igrj11014/.
Author X-ray: NASA/CXC/UC Berkeley/J.Tomsick et al & ESA/XMM-Newton.

In the Chandra image, seen with XMM-Newton is the faint X-ray tail extending to the top-right. Similar tails have been seen from other pulsars that also do not line up with the pulsar's direction of motion.


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