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This Chandra image shows the supernova remnant Kes 75. The pulsar is in the center of the blue area at the top.earlier in 2006.
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Source | Goddard Space Flight Center Yesterday's Vision, Tomorrow's Reality |
Author | Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Gonzalez/F. Gavriil/P. Slane. |
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RXTE caught four magnetar-like X-ray bursts on May 31, 2006, and another on July 27, 2006. Although none of these events lasted longer than 0.14 second, they all packed the wallop of at least 75,000 Suns. "Never before has a regular pulsar been observed to produce magnetar bursts," says Gavriil.
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