written by elizabeth howell, on february 26th, 2022

who: kenzie nimmo, a ph.d. student in astronomy at the netherlands institute for radio astronomy and the university of amsterdam in the netherlands, jason hessels, university of amsterdam and astron
what: a signal simmilar to one coming from the crab nebula
when: study published february 23rd, 2022
where: crab nebula and ursa major
how: using radio telescopes they were able to see the qualities needed for them to decide that it was a magnetar

interesting fact: usually these phenomenon happen in galaxies with young stars ,this one was stuck with an older galaxy

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