Powerful Gamma Ray Burst From 2004 Hints at a Magnetar Planet

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It's been 20 years plus since this happened, so my memory may be adrift. However, I thought the initial conclusion was that the GRB was caused by a 'star quake' on the surface of the magnetar. I think the difference between XRB and GRB is such, that only a large object, like a satellite crashing into the magnetar would cause a GRB.

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Well,whichever day it comes on, happy birthday, Anton! You have spread your love of science around this planet to the beytermentt of all of us! Keep reminding us of all the ways this universe can kill us! We could do with some humility!

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I love that we share the same birthday month! Mine is the 17th. I just had a crazy dream that I was being taught how to jump galaxies, but it was a lot to take in and I was starting to get overwhelmed! I was a little too heavy to feel the particles to jump off of and I fell through but was caught by the person teaching me with a woven basket. I jumped again and this timed continued to fall. I went so incredibly fast the universe turned from a dark void with stars into a light brown color. Made me feel like a particle in an accelerator 😅

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We're entering a new era of study: magnetar systems! Many happy returns!

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Wow, so it’s his birthday? How did you know? I’ll have to mark that in my calendar… January 15th. Edit: one website says his birthday is March 11, 1984 and the other website says January 1, 1984. Well, which is it? And can you link a source to the birthday info, plz? 😇

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Boy did I ever misunderstand the title.... 🤣 I know it makes no sense, but I've learned to not question the crazy stuff we discover, so I didn't think anything of it when I thought it was *_the PLANET_* that was the Magnetar... 😅🤦‍♂️

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Same

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@@jesusramirezromo2037 Eyy! 🍻 And with at least 7 others (8 likes), at least now I don't feel like a *_complete_* goof! 😊

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From the title, I was under the assumption that there is a planet *ORBITING* around a magnetar, which is impressive and almost impossible because magnetars have the most powerful magnetic field in the universe as of now, powerful enough to disrupt space and time, and ripping apart atoms into spaghetti. For a planet orbiting a magnetar to be possible, it should be outside the magnetar's magnetic field.

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@@Isaac-gh5ku Yes, the reality of what we discovered is indeed great, in a crazy and almost unreal way. Which again lends credence to what I said: "I've learned not to question the crazy stuff we discover" (by that I mean, even if it's absurd, I won't question its plausibility lol). So the title's wording leading some of us down a different path of understanding, isn't that surprising 😁

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Congratulations on another lap around the star

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I have magnetic Magnets maybe magnetars stuck on my refrigerator. Flash Gordon had a Gamma Ray gun. While Captain Video (& the video rangers) had a X-Ray gun, when I was a kid I had a cap gun.

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This sounds like a really reasonable explanation...

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You would think the planet orbiting the Magnetar would eventually be consumed after a few million years. Happy Birthday Anton!

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Could Dr. Petrov or someone else explain the principle behind why such energy bursts maintain their energy over long distances? I seem to recall an explanation from someone as to why certain radiation from a nuclear explosion remains deadly at a long range, but I cannot remember what he said.

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I could be wrong, and I'm mainly posting this as a way to subscribe to the thread for when someone provides the confirmed correct answer.... but *_I suspect_* it's because there's nothing in space to impede it besides dust/gas _(and the occasional celestial body/gravity well)._ On Earth, an explosion, even the size of a volcano _(like the Tonga one recently, which he has done a few videos on),_ has to fight against our atmosphere. A crude analogy: This is why you can't use a laser to communicate point-to-point over a great distance (ignoring Earth's curvature), as the atmosphere distorts it. Whereas two satellites CAN use them and over great distances, because there nothing to distort it. SpaceX's ver2 Starlink satellites, for example, have a laser that interlinks them with each other and basically functions as an internet backbone for their network.

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Did the chunk that caused the gamma burst change the rotation period of said magnetar ?

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Yep stands to reason that any planet of substantial size should have a core of heavy basic elements like iron , that orbiting a magnetar would be pulled into it with forces that would tear it apart, would love a video on how they are formed

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Doesn't the "tar" in magnetar come from "star"? So we would have to call it a magnelet? In honor of Anton's B-Day can we call it a magneton? Happy B-Day 'Ton.

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Damn, it’d had been nice to been born in a time where we could see these fireworks from a closer vantage.

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