Science news articles about 'soft gamma repeater'

... in 2005 and 2007. The ringed magnetar is of a type called a soft gamma repeater (SGR) because ... emits bursts of gamma rays. "The universe is a big place, and weird things can happen," said Stephanie ...

... of radiation from a rare object known as a soft gamma repeater, or SGR. Now, astronomers report an ... Space Agency's XMM-Newton and International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellites. ...