Saturday 30 December 2017

The Case of the 'Missing Link' Neutron Star

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- Martin Perez
www.nasa.gov

Astronomers have found that the mysterious object, called PSR J1119-6127, has been caught behaving like two distinct objects. However a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains -a radio pulsar and a magnetar-. The mysterious object itself sometimes is a pulsar, and sometimes it's a magnetar.

A radio pulsar is type of a neutron star, and Magnetars, by contrast, are rabble rousers. Since the 1970s, scientists have treated pulsars and magnetars as two distinct populations of objects... click here to continue!

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