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Aug 17, 2022
China's Insight-HXMT telescope breaks its own record with new detection.
Image above: An illustration of China's HMXT-Insight telescope, which has detected the strongest-ever magnetic field recorded so far. Image credit: CASC.
A Chinese X-ray telescope has detected the strongest-ever magnetic field recorded by making observations of a rapidly-spinning neutron star, or magnetar.
Insight, also known as the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HMXT), launched in 2017 and is able to observe a broad range of x-ray energy photons.
A team of researchers now report findings from observations of the x-ray spectrum of magnetar J0243.6+6124, indicating a magnetic field of more than 1.6 billion Tesla, nearly double the previous record reading for a magnetar.
Relate article:
China successfully launches Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2017/06/china-successfully-launches-hard-x-ray.html
Related links:
Insight-HXMT telescope: http://hxmten.ihep.ac.cn/
China National Space Administration (CNSA): http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/index.html
Images (mentioned), Text, Credits: CNSA/Space.com/By Andrew Jones.
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