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ESA -- Astronomers have witnessed a never-seen-before event in observations by ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft -- a collision between a pulsar and a ring of gas around a neighbouring star.The rare passage, which took the pulsar plunging into and through this ring, illuminated the sky in gamma- and X-rays. It has revealed a remarkable new insight into the origin and content of 'pulsar winds', which has been a long-standing mystery. The scientists described the event as a natural but 'scaled-up'...