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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.

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February 14, 2001

UCSB's LANGER ELECTED V.P. OF NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

December 18, 2000

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARDS INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS LARGEST SINGLE FEDERAL RESEARCH GRANT EVER MADE TO UCSB

October 26, 2000

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July 11, 2000

FIRST X-RAY FLARE FROM BROWN DWARF OBSERVED

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Cosmologists Publish First Detailed Images of Early Universe

April 12, 2000

UCSB Scientists Learning to Use Electron's Natural Spin

February 25, 2000

UCSB REPORTS RESULTS IN INTERNATIONAL RACE TO FIND DARK MATTER

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