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Chandra image of compact nebula around Vela pulsar. The image shows a dramatic bow-like structure at the leading edge of the cloud, or nebula, embedded in the Vela supernova remnant.

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Description	English: Chandra image of compact nebula around Vela pulsar. The image shows a dramatic bow-like structure at the leading edge of the cloud, or nebula, embedded in the Vela supernova remnant. This bow and the smaller one inside it, are thought to be the near edges of tilted rings of X-ray emission from high-energy particles produced by the central neutron star. Perpendicular to the bows are jets that emanate from the central pulsar, or neutron star. As indicated by the green arrow, the jets point in the same direction as the motion of the pulsar. The swept back appearance of the nebula is due to the motion of the pulsar through the supernova remnant. The rings are thought to represent shock waves due to matter rushing away from the neutron star. More focused flows at the neutron star's polar regions produce the jets. The origin of this activity is thought to be enormous electric fields caused by the combination of the rapid rotation and intense magnetic fields of the neutron star.
Date	6 June 2000 (upload date)
Source	Vela Pulsar: Chandra Reveals a Compact Nebula Created by a Shooting Neutron Star
Author	NASA/PSU/G.Pavlov et al.
Other versions	TIFF version PDF version JPG version TIFF version
Category InfoField	Neutron Stars/X-ray Binaries
Color Code InfoField	Intensity
Constellation InfoField	Vela
Coordinates (J2000) InfoField	RA 08h 35m 20.70s
Observation Date(s) InfoField	April 30, 2000
Observation ID(s) InfoField	128
Observation Time InfoField	3 hours
Scale InfoField	Image is 3.5 arcmin across.
Instruments InfoField	ACIS

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Source	Chandra X-ray Observatory
Credit/Provider	NASA/PSU/G.Pavlov et al.
Headline	X-ray image of rings and jets in the compact nebula.
Author	Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Copyright holder	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Image title	Chandra's bizarre image of the Vela pulsar (bright spot in the center) shows the details of a compact nebula that resembles a gigantic cosmic crossbow. This structure is created by a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar that spins out rings and jets of high-energy particles while shooting through space. As indicated by the green arrow, the jets point in the same direction as the motion of the pulsar. The swept back appearance of the nebula is due to the motion of the pulsar through the supernova remnant.
Short title	Chandra Reveals a Compact Nebula Created by a Shooting Neutron Star
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Date and time of data generation	6 June 2000
Exif version	2.21
Image width	471 px
Image height	475 px
Color space	sRGB
Width	471 px
Height	475 px
Pixel composition	RGB
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Bits per component	8 8 8
Date and time of digitizing	10:50, 12 October 2007
Date metadata was last modified	12:18, 23 February 2011
Keywords	Vela Pulsar
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
IIM version	2

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