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Credit: NASA / CXC / PSU / B. Posselt et al; Infrared: NASA / JPL-Caltech

Geminga is a neutron star approximately 250 parsecs (around 800 light-years) from the Sun in the constellation Gemini. Geminga was the first example of an unidentified gamma-ray source. The Geminga image as seen by Chandra and Spitzer.