Geminga is a neutron star approximately 250 parsecs away from the Sun in the constellation Gemini. Its name is both a contraction of `Gemini gamma-ray source`, and gh`è minga `it`s not there` in the Lombard dialect of Milan (pronounced ɡɛˈmiŋɡa). == Pulsar == The nature of Geminga was quite unknown for 20 years after its discovery by N...
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isolated pulsar (a rapidly rotating neutron star) about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Gemini, unique in that about 99 percent of ...
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Image of Geminga by the EPIC camera on the XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory. As the neutron star plows through space nearly perpendicular to our line of sight (at about 270,000 miles per hour) it creates a bow shock. The edge of this shock appears as two 'tails' visible in the image above A neutron...
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