{"id":99687,"date":"2019-12-12T22:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/first-of-its-kind-neutron-star-flashes-bizarre-cyclotron-line-at-earth"},"modified":"2019-12-12T22:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:02:39","slug":"first-of-its-kind-neutron-star-flashes-bizarre-cyclotron-line-at-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/first-of-its-kind-neutron-star-flashes-bizarre-cyclotron-line-at-earth","title":{"rendered":"First-of-Its-Kind Neutron Star Flashes Bizarre \u2018Cyclotron Line\u2019 at Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-of-its-kind-neutron-star-flashes-bizarre-cyclotron-line-at-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A twisted little neutron star devoured chunks of its stellar twin, revealing a never-before-seen phenomenon to scientists watching on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most objects in space (including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65259-black-hole-photobomb.html\">other neutron stars<\/a> and planet Earth), neutron star GRO J2058+42 doesn\u2019t have two simple magnetic poles at its north and south ends. Instead, it has a distorted magnetic field, with warped regions of intense magnetism sprinkled across the object\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A twisted little neutron star devoured chunks of its stellar twin, revealing a never-before-seen phenomenon to scientists watching on Earth. Unlike most objects in space (including other neutron stars and planet Earth), neutron star GRO J2058+42 doesn\u2019t have two simple magnetic poles at its north and south ends. Instead, it has a distorted magnetic field, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99687","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}