![Artistic representation of a magnetar. The energy stored in its ultra-strong magnetic field is relased as burst of gamma-rays, escaping from fractured produced in the stellar crust by the field itself.Credit: Conceptual images Lab, Goddard Space Center, N Artistic representation of a magnetar. The energy stored in its ultra-strong magnetic field is relased as burst of gamma-rays, escaping from fractured produced in the stellar crust by the field itself.Credit: Conceptual images Lab, Goddard Space Center, N](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/news/prensa620_771.jpg?itok=5uC4L21W)
Unprecedently deep images constraint the luminosity of a peculiar neutron star, the sixth known to date
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