Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 16, 2012 #1 Share Posted July 16, 2012 A magnetic monster’s dual personality Is it a magnetar or is it a pulsar? A second member of a rare breed of dead, spinning star has been identified thanks to an armada of space-based X-ray telescopes, including ESA’s XMM-Newton.Magnetars are a type of neutron star, the dead cores of massive stars that have collapsed in on themselves after burning up all their fuel and exploding as dramatic supernovas. They typically display bright, persistent X-ray emission and the most intense magnetic fields known in the Universe. Pulsars meanwhile are spinning neutron stars with much lower magnetic fields than magnetars that appear to pulse radio waves as they rotate rapidly. The pulses are seen when beams of radiation rotate through our line of sight from Earth, rather like the sweeping beam of a lighthouse. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat09tex Posted July 19, 2012 #2 Share Posted July 19, 2012 This could explain what I saw July 13 the! I viewed it without a telescope. Is there any footage of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 19, 2012 Author #3 Share Posted July 19, 2012 This could explain what I saw July 13 the! I viewed it without a telescope. Is there any footage of this? This wouldn't be visible to the naked eye, or indeed any amateur instrument. Pulsars are detectable using radio telescopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat09tex Posted July 20, 2012 #4 Share Posted July 20, 2012 What could explain this dancing /circling orb that after a few minutes would line back up with a lower orb? I did see meteorites that night. But this resembled a comet "trapped " in an orbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat09tex Posted July 21, 2012 #5 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Arrrrr.! This is driving me crazy! How about space junk burning in the atmosphere? Was there a rocket sent that evening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 21, 2012 Author #6 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Arrrrr.! This is driving me crazy! How about space junk burning in the atmosphere? Was there a rocket sent that evening? You already have a thread on this subject, let's not take this one too far off topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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