Tag Archive for 'Magnetar'

This is an artist's impression of the pulsar PSR J1745-2900 (MPIfR / Ralph Eatough).

Pulsar Helps Astronomers Measure Magnetic Field around Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Aug 15, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has used observations of the newly discovered pulsar PSR J1745-2900 to measure the magnetic field emanating from a...

CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, which has been used to confirm a population of Fast Radio Bursts, is shown superimposed on an image showing the distribution of gas in our Galaxy; an artist's impression of a single fast radio burst is shown located well away from the Galactic plane emission (Swinburne Astronomy Productions)

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Radio Bursts from Young Universe

Jul 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists has detected mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from cosmological distances when the Universe was just half...

Composite image of the magnetar SGR 0418 (X-ray: NASA / CXC / CSIC-IEEC / N.Rea et al.; optical: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes / WHT; infrared: NASA / JPL-Caltech)

Astronomers Discover SGR 0418, Magnetar with Lowest Surface Magnetic Field

May 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using X-ray data from NASA’s Swift, RXTE, Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatories has discovered...

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