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Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar - a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star - and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the universe. For Joseph Farah, a fifth-year graduate ...