{"id":216982,"date":"2013-08-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"4f1bf0d11b2f659c03462b8f819258e2"},"modified":"2013-08-14T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:00:00","slug":"magnetic-loop-on-magnetar-sgr-0418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=216982","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic loop on magnetar SGR 0418"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/08\/magnetic_loop_on_magnetar_sgr_0418\/12987663-5-eng-GB\/Magnetic_loop_on_magnetar_SGR_0418_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nArtist impression of a magnetar with a \u2018magnetic loop&#8217;. This is the interpretation of data collected by ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton space telescope of the magnetar known as SGR 0418, which boasts one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. In order to maintain such a strong magnetic field, the magnetar must have a twisted internal magnetic field, which manifests itself as a small region on the star\u2019s surface, somewhat similar to the localised magnetic fields anchored in sunspots on the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/08\/magnetic_loop_on_magnetar_sgr_0418\/12987663-5-eng-GB\/Magnetic_loop_on_magnetar_SGR_0418_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nArtist impression of a magnetar with a \u2018magnetic loop&#8217;. This is the interpretation of data collected by ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton space telescope of the magnetar known as SGR 0418, which boasts one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. In order to maintain such a strong magnetic field, the magnetar must have a twisted internal magnetic field, which manifests itself as a small region on the star\u2019s surface, somewhat similar to the localised magnetic fields anchored in sunspots on the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}