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Loading contentA young, bright pulsar in the Vela supernova remnant, spinning about eleven times a second. It is the classic glitching pulsar — famous for sudden small speed-ups in its rotation that reveal the superfluid interior of a neutron star — and one of the brightest gamma-ray sources in the sky.
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