Thursday, September 25, 2008

Missing Link Of Neutron Stars? Bizarre Hibernating Stellar Magnet Discovered

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2008) — Astronomers have discovered a most bizarre celestial object that emitted 40 visible-light flashes before disappearing again. It is most likely to be a missing link in the family of neutron stars, the first case of an object with an amazingly powerful magnetic field that showed some brief, strong visible-light activity.

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