National Geographic's top 10 space pictures 2007
(National Geographic)
Updated: 2007-12-27 16:32
Updated: 2007-12-27 16:32
Magnetar explosion. A rare celestial body known as a magnetar shimmers in an explosion of x-rays in an artist's depiction. The unusual object, about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, is a small, fast-spinning neutron star that periodically shoots out huge cataclysms of x-ray emissions.
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