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December 27, 2004: Milky-Way Magnetar Burst Bathes Earth in Eqivalent of Half a Million Years of Sunlight
The Daily Galaxy - 27 Dec 2015 18:22
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 equival...
Pluto through a stained glass window: A movie from the edge of our solar system
Phys.org - 27 Dec 2015 18:07
As New Horizons flew by Pluto, it recorded spectacular images of the icy world's surface using the LORRI and MVIC cameras. It recorded the plasma and dust environments with the PEPSSI, SWAP, and SDC instruments. But one ...