Record-Breaking Magnetar was There in the Data All Along
Astronomers found a rare long-period magnetar using MWA, and it turns out it's been observed but not identified over the past 33 years.
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Astronomers found a rare long-period magnetar using MWA, and it turns out it's been observed but not identified over the past 33 years.
In 2018 a doctoral student spotted "a spinning celestial space object," reports CNN. "The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation three times per hour." But that was just the beginning... In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable f...
Astronomers have detected a long-running source of slow, repeating radio pulses that can’t be explained by current theories – but it’s probably not aliens.
Astronomers have observed a 'slow' magnetar releasing bursts of radio waves every 22 minutes. The strange neutron star could change our perception of these extreme stellar corpses.
Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe.