![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917102059im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field CSI: Milky Way Team Works Scene of Dead Star
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May 28, 2008
![collapsed star at the center of image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917102059im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/csi_magnetar_l.jpg) | Like a team of forensic detectives in a television show that could be called "CSI: Milky Way," a University of Chicago astrophysicist and his associates are piecing together how a mysterious infrared ring got left around a dead star that displays a magnetic field trillions of times more intense than Earth's. The researchers present the results of their investigation in the May 29 issue of the journal Nature. Full story |
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