SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged magnetars Highly magnetic dead stars might have solid surfaces, but you sure wouldn't want to walk on 'em It would rip you apart before you ever got close. By Cassidy Ward | 2 months ago The weird gets weirder: A fast radio burst traced to a nearby galaxy's globular cluster The location is solved, but what's causing it? By Phil Plait | 11 months ago How did the COW supernova get so bright so fast? A little pre-explosion gas. A superluminous supernova lit up previously ejected material. By Phil Plait | 12 months ago The mystery of the disappearing flash in space Spoiler: it wasn't aliens. By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago A single object ripped out over 1,600 Fast Radio Bursts in just a few days and no one knows why By Phil Plait | 1 year ago A magnetar is outbursting again right on schedule By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Mysterious bursts of radio pulses prefer a galaxy's loving arms By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Now we know just how far away a magnetar is By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Neutron stars may be quite a bit bigger than previously thought By Phil Plait | 1 year ago A brain-curdling magnetar superflare seen in a neighboring galaxy By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Load More
Highly magnetic dead stars might have solid surfaces, but you sure wouldn't want to walk on 'em It would rip you apart before you ever got close. By Cassidy Ward | 2 months ago
The weird gets weirder: A fast radio burst traced to a nearby galaxy's globular cluster The location is solved, but what's causing it? By Phil Plait | 11 months ago
How did the COW supernova get so bright so fast? A little pre-explosion gas. A superluminous supernova lit up previously ejected material. By Phil Plait | 12 months ago
The mystery of the disappearing flash in space Spoiler: it wasn't aliens. By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago
A single object ripped out over 1,600 Fast Radio Bursts in just a few days and no one knows why By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
