Magnetar Star
by European Southern Observatory/science Photo Library
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Magnetar Star
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European Southern Observatory/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Magnetar star. Computer artwork showing the magnetic field (lines) around a magnetar in the star cluster Westerlund 1. This cluster lies 16,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara in the Milky Way. A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an incredibly strong magnetic field (a million billion times stronger than that of the Earth), which is formed when certain stars undergo supernova explosions. This example was formed from a star with at least 40 times the mass of the Sun. Image based on observations made using ESOâ??s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory, Chile.
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September 23rd, 2018
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