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Astronomers discover unique star blasting its radio wave beam in odd directions – WION
Scientists have discovered a unique star flipping its polarity and blasting its radio wave beam in odd directions around 15,000 light-years away.
Scientists have discovered a unique star flipping its polarity and blasting its radio wave beam in odd directions around 15,000 light-years away.
With a magnetic field up to 1,000 times stronger than a typical neutron star and about 100 million times stronger than the most powerful magnets made by humans, Swift J1818.01607 belongs to a special class of objects called magnetars, which are the most magnetic objects in the universe.
“This object is showing us an earlier time in a magnetar’s life than…
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