Back in June we brought you news that scientists at NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and several ground-based telescopes had discovered one of these magnetized neutron stars in the constellation Sagittarius, just 16,000 light years away from Earth. Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of West Virginia/H. Blumer Being only 500 years old in Earth time, it was the youngest neutron star ever spotted, and also the youngest magnetar ever found. The dizzying baby dynamo, spinning 1.4 times per second, projected an intense X-ray burst with a series of long and short radio pulses that astronomers first detected on March 12, 2020. Registered as Swift J1818.0-1607, the infant neutron star generates a magnetic field 70 quadrillion times stronger than that of our own planet, and 1,000 times greater than a typical neutron star.