* Astronomy

On November 3rd, 2005, no fewer than six spacecraft detected a powerful burst of gamma rays coming from the constellation Ursa Major in the general direction of the two galaxies M81 and M82. Both galaxies are about 12 million light-years away. The Swift, HETE-2, RHESSI, Mars Odyssey spacecraf...

Anomalous X-ray pulsars Tiny stellar 'corpses' have been caught blasting surprisingly powerful X-rays and gamma rays across our galaxy by ESA’s gamma-ray observatory Integral. This discovery links these objects to the most magnetically active bodies in the Universe and forces scienti...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens. The stellar corpse, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. These are the cores of massive stars that blew up in supernova explosions,...

First optical signals spied from dead star Astronomers believe they have spotted an aurora around of one of the densest objects in the Universe. In the first observation of its kind, researchers say that they have seen optical light from a magnetar, an extremely dense, dying neutron star with a very...

An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars. X-Rays from the giant outburst...

Title: Accreting magnetars: a new type of high-mass X-ray binaries? Authors: P. Reig (FORTH), J. M. Torrejón (U. Alicante), P. Blay (U. Valencia) The discovery of very slow pulsations (Pspin=5560s) has solved the long-standing question of the nature of the compact object in the high-mass X-ray b...

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Magnetar Soft Gamma Repeater Giant magnetar flare (Preview)	Cosmology News	8	7986	Jul 28 19:38 2015 by Blobrana
On November 3rd, 2005, no fewer than six spacecraft detected a powerful burst of gamma rays coming from the constellation Ursa Major in the general direction of the two galaxies M81 and M82. Both galaxies are about 12 million light-years away. The Swift, HETE-2, RHESSI, Mars Odyssey spacecraf...
Magnetar Pulsar Anomalous X-ray Pulsars ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	14	15678	May 29 11:06 2009 by Blobrana
Anomalous X-ray pulsars Tiny stellar 'corpses' have been caught blasting surprisingly powerful X-rays and gamma rays across our galaxy by ESA’s gamma-ray observatory Integral. This discovery links these objects to the most magnetically active bodies in the Universe and forces scienti...
Magnetar SGR 1900+14 (Preview)	Cosmology News	3	1905	Aug 26 04:30 2014 by Blobrana
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens. The stellar corpse, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. These are the cores of massive stars that blew up in supernova explosions,...
Magnetar Magnetar ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Cosmology News	15	12785	Dec 15 13:09 2016 by Blobrana
First optical signals spied from dead star Astronomers believe they have spotted an aurora around of one of the densest objects in the Universe. In the first observation of its kind, researchers say that they have seen optical light from a magnetar, an extremely dense, dying neutron star with a very...
Magnetar Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 0501+4516 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	4	2695	Jun 14 01:10 2010 by Blobrana
An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars. X-Rays from the giant outburst...
Magnetar Accreting magnetars (Preview)	Stars	0	1211	Mar 9 03:40 2012 by Blobrana
Title: Accreting magnetars: a new type of high-mass X-ray binaries? Authors: P. Reig (FORTH), J. M. Torrejón (U. Alicante), P. Blay (U. Valencia) The discovery of very slow pulsations (Pspin=5560s) has solved the long-standing question of the nature of the compact object in the high-mass X-ray b...