CSI: MILKY WAY TEAM WORKS SCENE OF DEAD STAR
May 28, 2008
May 28, 2008
CHICAGO, May 28 -- The University of Chicago issued the following news release:
Like a team of forensic detectives in a television show that could be called "CSI: Milky Way," a University of Chicago astrophysicist and his associates are piecing together how a mysterious infrared ring got left around a dead star that displays a magnetic field trillions of times more intense than Earth's.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected the ring around magnetar SGR 1 . . .
Like a team of forensic detectives in a television show that could be called "CSI: Milky Way," a University of Chicago astrophysicist and his associates are piecing together how a mysterious infrared ring got left around a dead star that displays a magnetic field trillions of times more intense than Earth's.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected the ring around magnetar SGR 1 . . .