... This is the first time the orbiters tested the physical processes of magnetars. ... This illustration shows a magnetar. Sky & Telescope: Gregg Dinderman . ... time, the physical processes that make magnetars, an atypical class of neutron stars ...
... The magnetar 1E 2259+586 shines a brilliant blue-white in this false-color X-ray ... 109 is only one of three supernova remnants in our galaxy known to harbor a magnetar ...
... Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely powerful magnetic fields. ... The stellar corpse, SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. ... anything ever seen before, formed in 1998 when the magnetar erupted in a giant flare ...
... Astronomers have found magnetars at the center of supernova remnants here in the Milky Way, but they re nothing like the fast-spinning magnetar at the heart of ASASSN-15lh. ...
... active and may even be an exotic, highly magnetized neutron star, called a magnetar ... Magnetars are very rare and hard to study," Rieke says. ... However, a young magnetar should be bright in at least some wavelengths, which is ...
... Fermi satellite suggests that the remnant from a long-duration GRB is most likely a black hole т?? not a rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star, or magnetar т?? since such a burst emits more energy than is theoretically possible from a magnetar ...
... RELATED TOPICS: STARS | SUPERNOVAE | MAGNETARS . ... powered by the creation of a magnetar, an extraordinarily magnetized neutron star ... Magnetars have the mass of the Sun packed into a star the size of a city and have ...
... Magnetars like the one illustrated above may be the source of highly energetic ... of these explosive bursts may be from magnetic neutron stars, known as magnetars ... Magnetars can give off more energy in a millisecond than our Sun does in 300,000 ...
... including the blazar Markarian 421 and a magnetar near the Milky Way s core ... RELATED TOPICS: MILKY WAY | MAGNETARS | NUSTAR . ... was due to a type of neutron star called a magnetar, and not Sagittarius A* itself ...