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Newly discovered magnetar is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place

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This is an artist’s impression of a magnetar, which is a special type of neutron star with an incredibly strong magnetic field. Neutron stars are some of the most compact and extreme objects in the universe. These stars typically pack more than the mass of the Sun into a sphere of neutrons about 12 miles across. The neutron star is depicted as a white-blueish sphere. The magnetic field is shown as filaments streaming out from its polar regions

It is so strange it might even offer clues to the mechanism behind events known as fast radio bursts.

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