{"id":183367,"date":"2024-02-22T13:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-zombie-star-that-could-solve-the-mystery-of-the-universes-strongest-magnets"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:24:31","slug":"the-zombie-star-that-could-solve-the-mystery-of-the-universes-strongest-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-zombie-star-that-could-solve-the-mystery-of-the-universes-strongest-magnets","title":{"rendered":"The Zombie Star That Could Solve the Mystery of the Universe\u2019s Strongest Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-zombie-star-that-could-solve-the-mystery-of-the-universes-strongest-magnets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the universe. These super-dense dead stars with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/charmingscience.com\/revealing-the-invisible-detecting-variations-in-extragalactic-magnetic-fields\/\">ultra-strong magnetic fields<\/a> can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don\u2019t know exactly how they form.<\/p>\n<p>Now, using multiple telescopes around the world, including European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, researchers have uncovered a living star that is likely to become a magnetar. This finding marks the discovery of a new type of astronomical object\u2014massive magnetic helium stars\u2014and sheds light on the origin of magnetars.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having been observed for over 100 years, the enigmatic nature of the star HD 45,166 could not be easily explained by conventional models, and little was known about it beyond the fact that it is one of a pair of stars, is rich in helium and is a few times more massive than our sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t know exactly how they form. Now, using multiple telescopes around the world, including European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, researchers have uncovered a living star that is likely to become [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}