massive star – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:02:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Astronomers have measured the most powerful magnetic field ever found around a star. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-have-measured-the-most-powerful-magnetic-field-ever-found-around-a-star/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-have-measured-the-most-powerful-magnetic-field-ever-found-around-a-star/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:02:53 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=19680 Astronomers have measured the most powerful magnetic field ever found around a star.

The star’s magnetic field is 20,000 times stronger than the Sun’s, and almost 10 times stronger than that detected around any other high-mass star. At about 35 times the Sun’s mass, the O-type star NGC 1624-2 lies in the open star cluster NGC 1624, about 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus.

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