An international team of astronomers using X-ray data from NASA’s Swift, RXTE, Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatories has discovered a magnetar called SGR 0418+5729 (SGR 0418 for short) – an exotic object in our Milky Way Galaxy with the lowest surface magnetic field ever found for this type of neutron star. Composite image of the magnetar SGR 0418 (X-ray: NASA / CXC / CSIC-IEEC / N.Rea et al.; optical: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes...
