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in the heart of the Milky Way, already about 22,000 light years away, astronomers have detected a star unlike any other. Its magnetic field, in fact, far exceeds anything scientists have seen before.
The star in question is a pulsar, the remains of a star that once shone like the Sun and has reached the end of its life. Is named Swift J0243.6+612and with its 1.6 billion Tesla field, it almost doubles any previous record.
To get an idea of this enormous magnetic power, it is enough to remember that a refrigerator magnet hovers around the 0,001 Teslaand that the most powerful …
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