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Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don't know exactly how they form.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A variant of a neutron star known as a magnetar. Scientists just uncovered the most magnetic star in the universe. The star, known ...

A magnetar known to scientists for 17 years might not have come from a supernova, like the rest of its ultra-magnetic brethren. But where did it form, then? The Hubble Space Telescope is on the case.

When the roiling nuclear fusion inside of a star begins to die — gravity crushing into the star’s waning fuel-store of hydrogen atoms, fusing them into heavier helium nuclei — the universe usually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magnetars are among the most bizarre and mysterious objects in the universe, packing in trillions of times more magnetic pull than ...

(CNN) — Magnetars are among the most bizarre and mysterious objects in the universe, packing in trillions of times more magnetic pull than the Earth or any magnet developed by humans. (CNN) — ...