December 27, 2004: Milky-Way Magnetar Burst Bathes Earth in Eqivalent of Half a Million Years of Sunlight

It came suddenly from the distant reaches of the Constellation Sagittarius, some 50,000 light years away. For a brief instant, a couple of tenths of a second, on December 27, 2004 an invisible burst of energy the equivalent of half…

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