File:Artist’s impression of HD 45166, the star that might become a magnetar (eso2313a).jpg
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editDescriptionArtist’s impression of HD 45166, the star that might become a magnetar (eso2313a).jpg |
English: This artist impression shows HD 45166, a massive star recently discovered to have a powerful magnetic field of 43 000 gauss, the strongest magnetic field ever found in a massive star. Intense winds of particles blowing away from the star are trapped by this magnetic field, enshrouding the star in a gaseous shell as illustrated here.Astronomers believe that this star will end its life as a magnetar, a compact and highly magnetic stellar corpse. As HD 45166 collapses under its own gravity, its magnetic field will strengthen, and the star will eventually become a very compact core with a magnetic field of around 100 trillion gauss — the most powerful type of magnet in the Universe.HD 45166 is part of a binary system. In the background, we get a glimpse of HD 45166’s companion, a normal blue star that has been found to orbit at a far larger distance than previously reported. |
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Date | Taken in 2023 | ||
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Author | ESO/L. Calçada | ||
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Credit/Provider | ESO/L. Calçada |
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Source | European Southern Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 20:00, 17 August 2023 |
JPEG file comment | This artist impression shows HD 45166, a massive star recently discovered to have a powerful magnetic field of 43 000 gauss, the strongest magnetic field ever found in a massive star. Intense winds of particles blowing away from the star are trapped by this magnetic field, enshrouding the star in a gaseous shell as illustrated here. Astronomers believe that this star will end its life as a magnetar, a compact and highly magnetic stellar corpse. As HD 45166 collapses under its own gravity, its magnetic field will strengthen, and the star will eventually become a very compact core with a magnetic field of around 100 trillion gGauss — the most powerful type of magnet in the Universe. HD 45166 is part of a binary system. In the background, we get a glimpse of HD 45166’s companion, a normal blue star that has been found to orbit at a far larger distance than previously reported. |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 24.7 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 16:13, 7 August 2023 |
Date and time of digitizing | 18:01, 7 August 2023 |
Date metadata was last modified | 18:13, 7 August 2023 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:c28d253f-0511-5b48-8ce6-5bb31a4f52ab |
Keywords | HD 45166 |
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Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, None, D-85748 Germany |
IIM version | 4 |