Astronomers caught the bizarre ‘awakening’ of an incredibly rare magnetic star.
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Magnetic fields billions of light years away offer clues to the nature of intense flashes from the sky known as fast radio bursts.
The object has a highly unusually long rotation period, and was found in an area we call the neutron star ‘graveyard’.
Magnetars are stars that are incredibly dense, rapidly spinning, amazingly hot and – as their name suggests – are the most magnetic objects known in the universe. The magnetic field on the surface of a…
A magnetar - a type of pulsar with a strong magnetic field - has been found at the centre of our Milky Way, allowing researchers…
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Dean of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
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