This special type of neutron star has been dubbed a magnetar, for obvious reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
I wonder if the magnetar is a phase of a dieing star on its way to singularity ... what is preventing it from collapsing?. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
The "magnetar" lies in a cluster of stars known as Westerlund 1, located 16,000 light years away in the constellation of Ara, the Altar. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
In the late '60s, he became a Vegas magnetar with his live revue. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 149] Reference
A magnetar forms when an extremely massive star has exhausted its fuel for internal combustion, and collapses into itself. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
If the magnetar were between us and the moon, it would instantly erase every cassette tape, ATM card and hard drive on the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Debut Of A Mighty Magnetar] Reference
Now that the Aug. 27 magnetar, named SGR 1900+14, has shown its power, magnetars have finally earned their place in the cosmic bestiary. From Wordnik.com. [Debut Of A Mighty Magnetar] Reference
Besides PSR B1257+12, at least one other pulsar planet is known PSR B1620+26 and a protoplanetary disk was revealed around the magnetar 4U 0142+61. From Wordnik.com. [Second Smallest Exoplanet Found | Universe Today] Reference
Thus, SGR 1627-41 was the only magnetar with an unknown period. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
PSR J1846-0258: Cool neutron star that acts like a magnetar. 884 years old. From Wordnik.com. [Pounding The Rock] Reference
NASA also celebrated the anniversary of the first magnetar-burst observation in 1999. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
At the center lies a magnetar, a neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
With a rotation rate of 2.6 seconds, this magnetar must be old enough to have slowed down. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
Dr Clark's team have concluded that the magnetar-begetting star must have weighed at least 40. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Instead, scientists working with the Swift satellite identified the blink-blink light as a magnetar. From Wordnik.com. [Unexplained Mysteries] Reference
The magnetar hypothesis for this object is reinforced by another analysis, based on another set of data. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
"If we could just find a magnetar in a cluster of highly magnetic stars, that would prove it," says Rea. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
SGR J1550-5418, which rotates once every 2.07 seconds, holds the record for the fastest-spinning magnetar. From Wordnik.com. [Spaceflight Now] Reference
Astronomers have discovered a possible magnetar that emitted 40 visible-light flashes before disappearing again. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
The answer, says the paper, could lie in a binary system: the star that became the magnetar was born with a stellar companion. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
Powerful beams of X-rays emanating from a magnetar have astrophysicists wondering what could cause such a massive starquake. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This artist's impression of a magnetar contains hundreds of very massive stars, some shining with a brilliance of almost one million suns. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
The magnetar hypothesis for this object is reinforced by another analysis, based on another set of data, appearing in the same issue of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
"A magnetar would wipe the information from all credit cards on Earth from a distance halfway to the Moon," says co-author Antonio de Ugarte Postigo. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
Strong magnetic field lines encompass a magnetar-a type of neutron star-in an artist's conception of the star cluster Westerlund 1 released August 18. From Wordnik.com. [National Geographic News] Reference
The Westerlund star which eventually became the magnetar must have been at least 40 times the mass of the Sun, according to the study, which appears in the research journal. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
The binary connection was sundered by the blast and both stars were ejected from the cluster, leaving just glowing remnants which are the magnetar, according to this theory. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
Dr Clark's magnetar is, at least, a lone anomaly. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Artist's impression of a magnetar. From Wordnik.com. [ESA Science & Technology] Reference
Or, more precisely, a magnetar. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Tags: black holes creation, cosmic rays, magnetar. From Wordnik.com. [An Exotic Source for Cosmic Rays: 'Baby' Black Holes | Universe Today] Reference
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