Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star


	Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star

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6-26-2008 5:40 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ea81a981-6a17-4393-8279-fb6b29a15571/34B9AAE9-A39F-4F25-9E4D-4D3EB465B19E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm" href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">science.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><STRONG>May 
                    29, 2008:</STRONG> NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found 
                    a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of 
                    a star that blasted itself to smithereens.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 
                    stellar corpse, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of 
                    objects known as magnetars. These are the cores of massive 
                    stars that blew up in supernova explosions, but unlike most 
                    other dead stars, they have tremendously strong magnetic fields.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/science.nasa.gov/img/B574C818-8C8C-4688-972D-45101FC656F0" alt="see caption" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm"><P class="detailImageDesc"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><STRONG>Above:</STRONG> 
                    A ring around SGR 1900+14 observed by the infrared Spitzer 
                    Space Telescope. [<A href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/20080528.html">more</A>]</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><STRONG>Below:</STRONG> 
                    A selection of rings and spheres in the Milky Way. From left 
                    to right, (1) <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050615.html">light 
                    echoes</A> from old supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, (2) <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020223.html">a 
                    blast wave</A> emerging from recent supernova 1987A, and (3) 
                    a planetary nebula named <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070803.html">The 
                    Helix</A>. The ring around SGR 1900+14 is like none of these 
                    things.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/science.nasa.gov/img/C0ABC71E-0961-434B-BD82-7D5EB80AD35A" alt="see caption" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/29may_magnetar.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A 
                    closer analysis revealed that the ring is most likely a carved-out 
                    cavity in a dust cloud -- a phenomenon that must be somewhat 
                    rare in the universe because it had not been seen before.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/34B9AAE9-A39F-4F25-9E4D-4D3EB465B19E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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