Two international teams of astronomers, using up to eight telescopes on Earth and space, have been discovered and studied a magnetar which is apparently different in their behavior to any known magnetar. It lies about 20,000 light years from our old planet. The first thing that surprised astronomers watching him was a series of very bright flashes of light recorded after a gamma ray burst. "After this outburst, and in just three days, the subject saw a total of 40 eruptions in the range visible.Once days after another small eruption was observed in the infrared and then disappeared" in his remarks says Alberto Castro (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia CSIC ) and leader of one of the two groups that watched the magnetar. There is a common behavior of known magnetars. It is thus believed that it could be a new type, perhaps a missing link between magnetars and neutron stars. And that has been caught in the transition from one category to another. Source: Country
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