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How pulsars get their spins

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Figure 1: The 3,700-year-old supernova remnant Puppis A, imaged in X-rays by the satellite Rosat.

S. SNOWDEN/C. BECKER/R. PETRE/F. WINKLER

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Burrows, A. How pulsars get their spins. Nature 393, 121–122 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/30108

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