Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 2, 2008 @10:26AM from the check-your-optics dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "An international team of scientists has found a strange ring around a dead star by using images taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. This star, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. According to NASA, a magnetar is 'a highly magnetized neutron star and the remnant of a brilliant supernova explosion signaling the death throes of a massive star.' So far, about a dozen magnetars have been found. An amazing thing about these stellar objects is their magnetic field. One of the researchers said that 'magnetars possess magnetic fields a million billion times stronger than the magnetic field of the Earth.'

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I, for one by Hawthorne01 · 2008-06-02 10:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

welcome our new Protector overlords.

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Re:Rings aren't that uncommon! by tommeke100 · 2008-06-02 11:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

I for one, welcome our Jupitor overlords !