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Monster magnetic star breaks records
Richard Ingham
Agençe France-Presse
Monday, 21 February 2005
The highly-magnetised neutron star undergoing a 'quake' at its surface, resulting in the gamma-ray outburst.
Stunned astronomers described the greatest cosmic explosion ever monitored, a star burst from the other side of the galaxy that was briefly brighter than the full Moon and swamped satellites and telescopes.
The high-radiation flash, detected on 27 December, didn't harm Earth but would have literally fried the planet had it occurred within a few light years of home.
Two science teams, involving 20 institutes around the world including Australia, will report on the blast in the journal Nature.
"We have observed an object only 20 kilometres across, on the other side of our galaxy, releasing more energy in a 10th of a second than the Sun emits in 100,000 years," says UK researcher Dr Rob Fender of University of Southampton.
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