Supersonic Pulsar Discovered

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered a pulsar speeding through space.
• Dubbed PSR J0002+6216, the pulsar pulsar, discovered by the NASA, is hurtling through space at nearly four million kilometres an hour.

Pulsar

• Pulsar is a celestial object that emits regular pulses of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation at rates of up to one thousand pulses per second.
• Pulsars are super dense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes.
• The speed of the pulsar in the space is so fast that it could travel the distance between the Earth and the Moon in just six ....