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  • A clump of material has been jettisoned from a double star system at incredibly high speeds.
  • X-rays from Chandra reveal that a pulsar in orbit around a massive star punched through a circumstellar disk of material.
  • Three Chandra observations of the system were taken between December 2011 and February 2014.
  • The data suggest the clump may even be accelerating due to the pulsar's powerful winds.

 

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