Sunday, October 24, 2010

Magnetars




Stellare's Week-end Magnetar



Credit: CXC/M. Weiss

There will be very few of these Week-end Magnetars, so enjoy this rare moment. :-)


PS. A magnetar is a slowly rotating neutron star where the internal magnets go bananas....



2 comments:

RennyBA said...

Fascinating & spectacular - and beautiful collars too!
Looks like it's more between heaven and earth, than meets the eye - after all :-)

Bente Lilja Bye said...

Those magnetars are simply magnificent! :-)