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The first magnetar flare detected from another galaxy was tracked to its home

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For the first time, astronomers have definitively spotted a flaring magnetar in another galaxy.These ultra-magnetic stellar corpses were thought to be responsible for some of the highest-energy explosions in the nearby universe. But until this burst, no one could prove it, astronomers reported January 13 at the virtual meeting of the American Astronomical Society and in papers in Nature and Nature Astronomy.

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The first magnetar flare detected from another galaxy was tracked to its home

For the first time, astronomers have definitively spotted a flaring magnetar in another galaxy.These ultra-magnetic stellar corpses were thought to be responsible for some of the highest-energy explosions in the nearby universe. But until this burst, no one could prove it, astronomers reported January 13 at the virtual meeting of the American Astronomical Society and in papers in Nature and Nature Astronomy.Astronomers have seen flaring magnetar…

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