Science and Exploration

Fermi Finds Hints of Starquakes in Magnetar Storm

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
October 21, 2014
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Fermi Finds Hints of Starquakes in Magnetar Storm
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NASA

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a rapid-fire “storm” of high-energy blasts from a highly magnetized neutron star, also called a magnetar, on Jan. 22, 2009.

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