Spotted: A 'Bizarre' Strobe Light Star, European astronomers reported that it may likely belongs to a long-sought family of compact "neutron" stars.
Astronomers are now thinking that this celestial enigma may be a 'magnetar' located in our own Milky Way galaxy, which is about 15,000 light-years away in the area around the constellation of Vulpecula, the Fox. Magnetars are aconsidered to be a type of young neutron stars. They are capable to boast a magnetic field that will be a billion billion times stronger than Earth's.
To make this topic more interesting, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo said that “A magnetar would wipe the information from all credit cards on Earth from a distance halfway to the Moon.” So what can you say about that now?
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