PSR J0002+6216
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| Constellation | Cassiopeia |
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| Distance | 6500 ly; (2,000 pc) |
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| ID | 3014348 |
About PSR J0002+6216
PSR J0002+6216, also dubbed the Cannonball Pulsar, is a pulsar discovered by the Einstein@Home project in 2017. It is one of the fastest moving pulsars known, and has moved 53 ly away from the location of its formation supernova, where the remaining supernova nebula, CTB 1, is.