NASA Image of the Day · August 7, 2026
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature.
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Find it in the sky: M 44, Cancer
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Find it in the sky: NGC 292, Tucana
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Find it in the sky: NGC 7129, Cepheus
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