Our galaxy, the Milky Way, can be easily compared to a pizza or a pancake; sure, it bulges in the middle, unlike a pizza, but mostly it all happens in a flat-ish disk. There is stuff above and below the plane of the Milky Way , but it's an area of low density with few stars. It was therefore surprising to find a supernova remnant there, since there is not much activity. It was also surprising to find a pulsar there, tens of thousands of light-years away from that supernova remnant, again for the same reason. Now, researchers think that these two improbable objects are related. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Pulsars are a type of pulsating neutron star. Neutron stars are a possible end product of supernovae, the fata

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