Unraveling the mystery of Magnetars

Artist's Concept of a Magnetar

A recently discovered stellar body with an extremely powerful magnetic field and highly dense mass with great rotational speeds, emitting high energy electromagnetic radiations in the form of X-rays and gamma rays. Yep, its a Magnetar !

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THE JOURNEY THAT IS STILL GOING ON

When you travel for some hours you feel much tired. Even our machines get heated and performance quality gets degraded if we make it run for longer time. Now imagine of a machine that is doing it’s work for 30 years in the same perfect and correct condition and still has not stopped. Yes my friends, this machine is the most distant unmanned man-made spacecraft from earth, The Voyager 1. It Started its journey in Sept. 5, 1977 and now is the most distant spacecraft from earth.

That small pale blue dot is us, yes its the Earth as viewed from Voyager 1, 4 billion miles away

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LOOKING BACK AT PAST

History was created on 14^th February when the first ever close-up flyby of its kind was made. This history was made the STARDUST-NExt probe that flew within 112 miles(181 kilometers) of the comet Temple 1 at 11:39 p.m. EST or 4:39 GMT(15^th February 2011). It snapped photos and made measurements all at the same time.

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Black Holes

People often ask if Moon revolves around Earth, Earth revolves around Sun, then what does the Sun revolve around? It has kept astrophysicists curious for decades. According to recent explorations, astrophysicists have concluded that our sun revolves around the center of our galaxy (Milky Way galaxy) where there is a super massive black hole

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