{"id":80259,"date":"2018-06-30T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/astronomers-observe-the-magnetic-field-of-the-remains-of-supernova-1987a"},"modified":"2018-06-30T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:44:13","slug":"astronomers-observe-the-magnetic-field-of-the-remains-of-supernova-1987a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/astronomers-observe-the-magnetic-field-of-the-remains-of-supernova-1987a","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers observe the magnetic field of the remains of supernova 1987A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-observe-the-magnetic-field-of-the-remains-of-supernova-1987a.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of astronomy\u2019s most studied objects: the remains of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), a dying star that appeared in our skies over thirty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being an impressive observational achievement, the detection provides insight into the early stages of the evolution of supernova remnants and the cosmic magnetism within them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe magnetism we\u2019ve detected is around 50,000 times weaker than a fridge magnet,\u201d says Prof. Bryan Gaensler. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve been able to measure this from a distance of around 1.6 million trillion kilometres.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-06-astronomers-magnetic-field-supernova-1987a.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;06-astronomers-magnetic-field...1987a.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of astronomy\u2019s most studied objects: the remains of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), a dying star that appeared in our skies over thirty years ago. In addition to being an impressive observational achievement, the detection provides insight into the early stages of the evolution [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80259","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=80259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}