SGR 1806-20
magnetar · the strongest magnetic field known
28,000 light-years from Earth
A neutron star with a magnetic field a thousand trillion times Earth's. On 27 December 2004 its crust cracked and released more energy in 0.2 s than the Sun does in 250,000 years. Replayed on a loop.
- field ~10^15 gauss: it would wipe credit cards from halfway to the Moon
- stress building in the twisted field
- kind
- star
More stars & stellar remnants
- S2 and the S-stars stars orbiting the black hole
- Stephenson 2-18 red supergiant
- WR 124 Wolf-Rayet star shedding its skin
- Eta Carinae hypergiant binary inside the Homunculus Nebula
- Crab Pulsar neutron star
- UY Scuti red supergiant
- WR 140 colliding-wind binary
- RS Ophiuchi recurrent nova