Sunday, 18 August 2013

The Mysterious Magnetar WIth an Insanely Strong Magnetic Field



The Mysterious Magnetar WIth an Insanely Strong Magnetic Field
Aug 18th 2013, 15:00, by Jamie Condliffe

18x2mjihf35nwpngA team of scientists using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space telescope have discovered a weird dead star , which hides one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. The magnetar—a particular kind of neutron star—is called SGR 0418+5729, and is essentially the dead core of a once massive star that collapsed in on [...]

    






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