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Nature 419, 121-123 (12 September 2002) | doi:10.1038/419121a
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Computational Genomics - Team 78 – Ref: 80464
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1, UK
Postdoctoral Research in Functional Genomics
- Harvard School of Public Health, computer science, biology, bioinformatics,
- Boston, MA
Astronomy: The missing link
Shri Kulkarni
Abstract
Some stars might be 'magnetars', powered by magnetism instead of fusion. The discovery of an X-ray burst from an anomalous X-ray pulsar suggests that this type of star can be added to the list.
About 60 years ago, physicists realized that ordinary stars are powered by nuclear fusion. Since then, astronomers have found other types of star that are powered by gravitational binding energy, by radioactivity or by rotational energy.
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