This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NRAO, AUI or NSF of any company or product Pulsar wind nebula, X-ray and radio image.

---

This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NRAO, AUI or NSF of any company or product Pulsar wind nebula, X-ray and radio image. This cloud of gas expanded rapidly outward when the star in its centre went supernova and turned into a pulsar. The appearance of the expanding cloud is caused by the pulsar pushing the gas outward in bulges, creating what is known as a pulsar wind nebula (PWN). This image combines data from the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO). Image observations made in 2006, using C-band emissions for the radio image.

---

Size: 3378px × 2602px
Photo credit: © NASA/CXC/NRAO/AUI/NSF/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -, -bad, -ray, 2006, array, astronomical, astronomy, astrophysical, astrophysics, band, band-, chandra, composite, cxo, evolution, gas, large, nebula, observatory, pulsar, pwn, radio, space, stellar, universe, vla, wind, xray