{"id":187009,"date":"2024-04-08T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/magnetic-awakening-unusual-radio-pulses-detected-from-a-previously-dormant-star"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:27:34","slug":"magnetic-awakening-unusual-radio-pulses-detected-from-a-previously-dormant-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/magnetic-awakening-unusual-radio-pulses-detected-from-a-previously-dormant-star","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Awakening: Unusual Radio Pulses Detected From a Previously Dormant Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qi8886ctVUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO \u2019s Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New results published today (April 8) in <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em> describe radio signals from magnetar XTE J1810-197 behaving in complex ways.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetars are a type of <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-neutron-star\/\">neutron star<\/a> and the strongest magnets in the Universe. At roughly 8,000 light years away, this magnetar is also the closest known to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO \u2019s Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field. New results published today (April 8) in Nature Astronomy describe radio signals from magnetar XTE J1810-197 behaving in complex ways. Magnetars are a type of neutron star and the strongest magnets in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187009","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}