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Observations using the Very Large Array (orange) reveal the needle-like trail of pulsar J0002+6216 outside the shell of its supernova remnant, shown in image from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey. The pulsar escaped the remnant some 5,000 years after the supernova explosion.

Credit: Composite by Jayanne English, University of Manitoba; F. Schinzel et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF; DRAO/Canadian Galactic Plane Survey; and NASA/IRAS.

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Telescope	CGPS; VLA
Date	-; 2017-08-19T11:35:37.500000
Center	RA: 0:00:41.02, Dec: 62:13:11.03
Field of View	98.75 x 99.79 arcminutes

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