Artist’s impression of magnetar

An artist’s impression of an object located roughly 4,200 light years from our solar system that may be a type of neutron star – the dense, collapsed core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova – called a magnetar, in this handout image obtained January 27, 2022. The object was detected using the Murchison Widefield Array telescope in Australia. Courtesty of International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research/Handout via REUTERS