Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 08:42
in Astronomy & Space
An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA’s XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars.
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