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Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO (X-Ray) / NASA/JPL-Caltech (Infrared)

PSR B1509−58 is a pulsar approximately 17,000 light-years away in the constellation of Circinus discovered by the Einstein X-Ray Observatory in 1982. X-rays from Chandra are gold; infrared from WISE in red, green and blue/max.