A distant magnetic star erupted, spitting out as much energy as our sun produces in 100,000 years, in just 1/10 of a second, according to study by Spanish scientists.
An international group of scientists has tried to study a neutron star, which is created when a giant star dies in a supernova and its core collapses, forming neutrons. In a first, the group says it has been able to measure the oscillations in the brightness in a magnetar.