An Illustration of the Pulsar and Pulsar Wind Nebula System (Not to Scale) (IMAGE)

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An Illustration of the Pulsar and Pulsar Wind Nebula System (Not to Scale)

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An illustration of the pulsar and pulsar wind nebula (PWN) system (not to scale). The relativistic wind from the central pulsar is terminated by a shock at a radius of about one light-year and starts to radiate. The typical size of a PWN is a few light-years. The image of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy shown in the lower left was taken by YE Ziyi .

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Institute of High Energy Physics

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