Thursday, September 25, 2008

New Star


European astronomers "found" this strobe light star which belongs to a long-sought family of compact "neutron" stars. Scientists believe it to be something called a Magnetar which, according to the article “would wipe the information from all credit cards on Earth from a distance halfway to the Moon." I thought this was way interesting. To read the full article click here.

3 comments:

Christopher Maloy said...

Now this is my kind of post. Great information Scott!!!! I loved it.

Jodi Jean said...

wow, that's pretty cool actually!!

you ready for survivor gabon? sundays are gonna be survivor nights again, it started on thursday.

Heidi Maloy said...

Pretty cool, Chris made me watch the Universe documentary on the History channel... lot's of interesting stuff!