PSR J0002+6216

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 53 ly 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 1127 km/s, it is leaving a 13 ly long wake tail and is traveling fast enough to leave the Milky Way galaxy. The pulsar is currently 6500 ly away in the Cassiopeia constellation. The star rotates at a rate of 8.7 times a second. There is bow-shock pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with PSR J0002+6216.