PSR J0002+6216, also dubbed the Cannonball Pulsar, is a pulsar discovered by the Einstein@Home project in 2017. It is one of the fastest moving pulsars known, and has moved away from the location of its formation supernova, where the remaining supernova nebula, CTB 1 (Abell 85), is. Due to its speed in traversing the interstellar medium, at , it is leaving a long wake tail and is traveling fast enough to leave the Milky Way galaxy. The pulsar is currently away in the Cassiopeia constellation. The star rotates at a rate of 8.6682 times a second. There is bow-shock pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with PSR J0002+6216.
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External links AstroSurf, Abell 85 (CTB 1)