Scientists have uncovered a new feature in one of the closest pulsars to Earth, the Geminga pulsar. Plowing through space at 120 kilometers per second (or Milan to New York City in 57 seconds), this ...

See that purple stream at the bottom right? It’s the helical jet from a runaway pulsar that’s streaking across the Milky Way at speeds reaching five million mph. But more extraordinary than that is ...

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The pulsar is travelling away from the cloud at a speed of between 4 and 8 million kilometres an hour, producing a jet of high-energy particles as it goes. This purple spew is 37 light years long, a ...