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Giant gamma-ray flare from 'recently deceased' magnetar lights up Cigar Galaxy
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAstronomers have discovered a flare erupting from a highly magnetic "dead star" outside the solar...
Gamma-ray burst from magnetar lights up star-forming galaxy
Cosmos· 3 days agoAstronomers have witnessed a rare giant flare from a magnetar about 12 million light-years away....
Exploding stars send out powerful bursts of energy − I’m leading a citizen scientist project to...
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 days agoStudying these pulses, which can also come from mergers of some exotic astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars, can help astronomers like me understand the history of the ...
UAH astrophysics research advances understanding of how the light of gamma-ray bursts is produced
Newswise· 7 days agoGamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a...
Flash Of Gamma Rays In Nearby Galaxy Came From Stupendously Magnetic Dead Star
IFLScience· 4 days agoLast November, astronomers saw a quick gamma-ray explosion lasting one-tenth of a second. Then, 13 seconds later, they knew it came from galaxy M82, which ...
NASA's Fermi space telescope finds a strange supernova with missing gamma rays
SPACE.com· 3 days agoWhile examining a nearby supernova with NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, an effort meant to...
We may have spotted the first magnetar flare outside our galaxy
Ars Technica· 4 days agoGamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than...
Huge radiation explosion from a magnetar - forschung.de
Weston Forum· 4 days agoInvestigation of the source area that began immediately after the gamma-ray flash made this conclusion possible, the researchers reported. For some astronomical ...
A Dead Star in a Nearby Galaxy Just Did Something Wild
Inverse· 4 days agoA magnetar in galaxy M82 recently sent a huge burst of gamma rays and other radiation blasting out...
Enormous explosion in 'Cigar Galaxy' reveals rare type of star never seen beyond the Milky Way
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAn incredibly brief, ultrabright explosion has led astronomers to a newfound magnetic star outside...