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A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
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Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO
A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

UCSB researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics

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Diverse Voices, Diverse Approaches to Theater

All in a Day’s Work

‘A Call to Action’

Double Trouble for Corals

Seeing is Believing
A school of opaleye swim past grazing purple urchins off Santa Cruz Island

An Opaleye-opening Result

Ancient Acid Taste Receptors

A Man of Letters

Once More With Feeling

Headwater Refuges

A Transnational Treasure

Resilient Fisheries
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