Powerful cosmic eruptions traced to brilliant 'magnetar' in nearby galaxy
Powerful cosmic eruptions traced to brilliant 'magnetar' in nearby galaxy Space 1/21/2021 Charles Q. Choi © Provided by Space The Interplanetary Network triangulated the location of a gamma-ray burst catalogued as "GRB 200415A" to the center of the nearby Sculptor galaxy, or NGC 253, located about 11.4 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sculptor. Astronomers may have captured the first good look at giant flares from the strongest magnets in the universe. The likely cause of these giant flares? Starquakes trillions of trillions of times stronger than any e...
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