Magnetars: mega-magnetic ... The flare detected by INTEGRAL is the first firm confirmation of a magnetar flare outside of the Milky Way. M82 is a bright galaxy where star formation takes place.

While observing the sky, ESA's INTEGRAL satellite detected a burst of gamma rays ... concluded that it was an extragalactic eruption from a magnetar, a young neutron star with an exceptionally strong ...

Only five days after the big eruption, Integral detected highly energetic X-rays ... One is that it is the tiny core left behind after a highly magnetic star has died. But such magnetic stars ...

Here’s how it works. A baby version of the sun recently let off an eruption of magnetic plasma gas 10 times larger than any ever seen from a sun-like star, according to new research. The star ...

A rare and rowdy “cannibal” solar eruption slammed into Earth this week ... forming one massive, magnetic monster that socked Earth’s atmosphere on April 15. The result?

Dozens of mini earthquakes have struck near a 11,000-foot-tall volcano in Alaska that experts fear is 'moving closer to an eruption.' The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) has detected 30 ...

Dozens of mini earthquakes have struck near a 11,000-foot-tall volcano in Alaska that experts fear is 'moving closer to an eruption.' The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) has detected 55 ...

An international team, including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), realised that the burst must have been an extra-galactic flare from a magnetar, a young neutron star with an ...

Only 5 days after the big eruption, Integral detected highly energetic X rays ... One is that it is the tiny core left behind after a highly magnetic star has died. But such magnetic stars are ...

Artist's impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the Universe.