But it is also the first LPT known to emit X-rays. This mysterious object could take many forms, including a pulsar, a white dwarf star in a binary with a low-mass star, or a magnetar.

But it is also the first LPT known to emit X-rays. This mysterious object could take many forms, including a pulsar, a white dwarf star in a binary with a low-mass star, or a magnetar.

Though magnetars and pulsars are two distinct types of neutron stars, astronomers have spotted a magnetar mimicking a pulsar after launching a mysterious blast of intense radiation.

The pulsar sits at the center of the nebula and spins 30 times a second. Enoto’s team was able to capture activity across 3.7 million pulsar rotations, producing around 26,000 giant radio pulses ...

A few months after the detection of the first radio wave burst in the Milky Way, astronomers have identified its mysterious source — a magnetar.

Do you have a question about magnetars? Let us know via [email protected]. Update 2/20/2024, 12:58 p.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from Chin-Ping Hu.

An international research team led by Michael Kramer and Kuo Liu from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, have studied a rare species of ultra-dense stars, so called ...