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Cecilia Scorza, EU-UNAWE Germany

The Most Attractive Stars in the Universe

At the centre of the cosmic cloud in this photograph lies a tiny magnetar. But what this star lacks in size it makes up for in energy, shooting out powerful jets of X-rays every few seconds! You can see the X-ray jets in blue on this photograph.

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NASA/CXC/Univ. of Manitoba/H.Kumar et al/DSS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/NSF/NRAO/VLA

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