Tag: magnetar

Interesting Astronomy & Astrophysics news from the week of 1/17/2021

Next Week’s Night Sky: January 28th is the full moon. This is a wonderful time to take a good look at the moon through binoculars —  you should be able to make out many fine and beautiful details! Youngest Magnetar Astronomers discovered the youngest member of a bizarre group of stars, known as magnetars, using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope in March of 2020. And now, further observations shed even more light on the exotic beast. Magnetars are a special breed of already strange neutron stars. Remnants […]

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Interesting Astronomy & Astrophysics news from the week of 1/3/2021

Next week’s night sky: Wednesday marks the new moon. This is a great time for stargazing because the moon will not blot out any stars! Look out for the Pleiades high in the sky, one of the most beautiful star clusters of the night sky. Hubble’s Beautiful Galaxy collisions To celebrate a new year, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has published a montage of six beautiful galaxy mergers. Each of these merging systems was studied as part of the recent HiPEEC survey to investigate the rate of […]

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