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       2025-04-15T22:39:08Z
       
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       Researchers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find an extreme form of a neutron star - a magnetar - which is blasting through the Milky Way at high speed. Magnetars are rare; only 30 have ever been found in our galaxy. Designated SGR 0501+4516, it's close to a supernova remnant and was thought to be part of the explosion. But its high speed reveals that it's moving too quickly to have been born in that particular supernova.https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-tracks-a-roaming-magnetar-of-unknown-origin/