{"id":186977,"date":"2024-04-08T06:24:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/magnetic-star-flashes-never-seen-before-signals-baffling-scientists"},"modified":"2024-04-08T06:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:24:34","slug":"magnetic-star-flashes-never-seen-before-signals-baffling-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/magnetic-star-flashes-never-seen-before-signals-baffling-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic star flashes \u2018never seen before\u2019 signals baffling scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-star-flashes-never-seen-before-signals-baffling-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A radio telescope observed complex activity in a magnetar 8,000 light-years from Earth:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A CSIRO team discovered a dormant star waking up with \u201cunusual radio pulses\u201d after being silent for years.<\/p>\n<p>Most magnetars are known to emit polarized light, which oscillates in a certain direction. This magnetar generates light with circular polarization, creating a rapid spiral pattern as it travels across space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike the radio signals we\u2019ve seen from other magnetars, this one is emitting enormous amounts of rapidly changing circular polarization. We had never seen anything like this before,\u201d said Marcus Lower, a postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO, Australia\u2019s national science agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radio telescope observed complex activity in a magnetar 8,000 light-years from Earth: A CSIRO team discovered a dormant star waking up with \u201cunusual radio pulses\u201d after being silent for years. Most magnetars are known to emit polarized light, which oscillates in a certain direction. This magnetar generates light with circular polarization, creating a rapid [\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-186977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186977","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=186977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}