A highly magnetic star. Magnetar have magnetic fields of about 1015 Gauss, about a thousand trillion times stronger than the Earth's. The strong magnetic field puts the star's surface under enormous stress, perhaps causing "starquakes" and resulting high energy bursts of radiation. These short-lived neutron stars were theorized to exist in 1992 by Robert C. Duncan and Christopher Thompson. Their existence was confirmed in 1998 by Chryssa Kouveliotou et al.
a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, strong enough to rip atoms apart
a neutron star with a strong magnetic field
an exotic kind of neutron star--a city-sized ball of neutrons created when a massive star's core collapses at the end of its lifetime
a relic of a larger star that has consumed all its fuel and collapsed and compressed its core to the size of a pinhead but that weighs as much as a battleship
a special class of neutron star that has a very intense magnetic field
a special kind of neutron star
a star designed by a committee of physicists, each trying to outdo the other
a superdense neutron star with a magnetic field thousands of trillions of times more intense than that of the Earth
a type of neutron star, but up to a thousand times more magnetic than the average neutron star
a type of neutron star, but up to a thousand times more magnetic than the run-of-the-mill variety
A magnetar is a neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field, the decay of which powers the emission of copious amounts of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma-rays. The theory regarding these objects was formulated by Robert Duncan and Christopher Thompson in 1992. In the course of the decade that followed, the magnetar hypothesis has become widely accepted as a likely physical explanation for observable objects known as soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars.
