Magnetars: mega-magnetic ... The flare detected by INTEGRAL is the first firm confirmation of a magnetar flare outside of the Milky Way. M82 is a bright galaxy where star formation takes place.

While observing the sky, ESA's INTEGRAL satellite detected a burst of gamma rays ... concluded that it was an extragalactic eruption from a magnetar, a young neutron star with an exceptionally strong ...

Only five days after the big eruption, Integral detected highly energetic X-rays ... One is that it is the tiny core left behind after a highly magnetic star has died. But such magnetic stars ...

BOSTON — For the first time, a stellar eruption called a coronal ... why scientists haven’t detected a CME from another star before. Strong stellar magnetic fields are associated with more ...

Here’s how it works. A baby version of the sun recently let off an eruption of magnetic plasma gas 10 times larger than any ever seen from a sun-like star, according to new research. The star ...

An international team, including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), realised that the burst must have been an extra-galactic flare from a magnetar, a young neutron star with an ...

Only 5 days after the big eruption, Integral detected highly energetic X rays ... One is that it is the tiny core left behind after a highly magnetic star has died. But such magnetic stars are ...

Artist's impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the Universe.