A magnetar is born
Scientists captured the birth of a magnetar for the first time
This is the result of a giant collision between two neutron stars.
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NASA, ESA and M. Kornmesser
On May 22, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a gamma ray burst that produced more energy in a half-second than the Sun will produce over its entire 10-billion-year lifetime.
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Gamma ray bursts are high-energy explosions, the brightest and most energetic of all electromagnetic events that take place across the cosmos.
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