It is a pulsar – emits regular pulses of light
Astronomers recently captured the images of a young magnetar from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Magnetars are a type of neutron star (an incredibly dense object made up of tightly packed neutron, which forms from the collapsed core of a massive supernova). They are different from the regular neutron stars because they have the most powerful known magnetic fields in the universe. Hence they are named magnetars. They have magnetic fields of about a million billion Gauss (unit of measuring the magnetic field).
To know the strength of their magnetic field, if it is located about 40,000 miles away from Earth, it would wipe the data from all the credit cards on Earth.
This magnetar was detected and named as, J 1818.0-1607. It is the youngest known magnetar, about 500 years old. It is located at a distance of about 21,000 light-years (one light year is equal to about 9.46 trillion kilometres) from Earth. It was found to be a fast spinner, spinning once every 1.4 seconds. The high resolution view of this magnetar in X-ray was purple. It was also found to be a pulsar, meaning it emits regular pulses of light.
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