File:The Star with a Secret Identity.jpg

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English: An artist's impression of a magnetar undergoing a random eruption called a “starquake”, which include bursts of powerful X-rays.
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Source http://www.unawe.org/resources/images/magnetar_loop/
Author X-ray: NASA/CXC/Huntingdon Inst. for X-ray Astronomy/G.Garmire, Optical: ESO/VLT

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10 November 2013

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