International team detects eruption of mega-magnetic star in …
WEBApr 24, 2024 · On 15 November 2023, ESA's satellite INTEGRAL spotted a sudden explosion from a rare object. For only a tenth of a second, a short burst of energetic gamma-rays appeared in the sky.
NASA Missions Unmask Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies
WEBJan 13, 2021 · This finding confirms long-held suspicions that some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) – cosmic eruptions detected in the sky almost daily – are in fact powerful flares from magnetars relatively close to home.
Eruption of mega-magnetic star lights up nearby galaxy
WEBApr 24, 2024 · On 15 November 2023, ESA's satellite INTEGRAL spotted a sudden explosion from a rare object. For only a tenth of a second, a short burst of energetic gamma-rays appeared in the sky.
ESA - Dead star lights up nearby galaxy - European Space Agency
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Dead star lights up nearby galaxy. While ESA's Integral was observing the sky, it suddenly spotted a burst of gamma-rays coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA’s XMM-Newton searched for …
Eruption of mega-magnetic star lights up nearby galaxy
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Eruption of mega-magnetic star lights up nearby galaxy. Thanks to ESA satellites, an international team including UNIGE researchers has detected a giant eruption coming from a magnetar, an extremely magnetic …
Here's how astronomers found one of the rarest phenomenons in …
WEBApr 24, 2024 · In a new paper published in Nature, Mereghetti and his team lay out their case that the eruption detected in November, 2023 was the result of a giant flare from a magnetar located in the M82...
Eruption of mega-magnetic star lights up nearby galaxy
WEBThanks to ESA satellites, an international team including UNIGE researchers has detected a giant eruption coming from a magnetar, an extremely magnetic neutron star.
WEBThe eruption was detected by the ASIM instrument, which is on board the International Space Station (ISS). ASIM was the only one of the seven telescopes capable of registering the main phase...
International team detects eruption of mega-magnetic star in …
WEBApr 24, 2024 · A global workforce, together with researchers from the College of Geneva (UNIGE), realized that the burst will need to have been an extra-galactic flare from a magnetar, a younger neutron star with an exceptionally sturdy magnetic discipline.
Huge energetic flare from magnetic neutron star detected
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one of these eruptions, called a giant flare, from a magnetar residing in a galaxy called Messier 82, or M82.
