{"id":240692,"date":"2026-07-12T07:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/astronomers-witness-the-birth-of-a-magnetar-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:03:24","slug":"astronomers-witness-the-birth-of-a-magnetar-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/astronomers-witness-the-birth-of-a-magnetar-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers witness the birth of a magnetar for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-witness-the-birth-of-a-magnetar-for-the-first-time.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A strange \u201cchirping\u201d signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe&amp;apos;s brightest stellar explosions. The discovery also marks the first time Einstein&amp;apos;s general relativity has been used to explain the mechanics of a supernova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange \u201cchirping\u201d signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe&amp;apos;s brightest stellar explosions. The discovery also marks the first time Einstein&amp;apos;s general relativity has been used to explain the mechanics of a supernova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240692","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}