Enormous eruption reveals dead star in deep space

Astronomers, using ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, have observed an enormous eruption, which after careful analysis, has revealed a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars.X-Rays from the giant outburst arrived on Earth on August 22, 2008, and triggered an automatic sensor on the NASA-led, international Swift satellite. Just twelve hours