Most Magnetic Large Star Ever Found Has 4000 Times Stronger Field than Our Sun
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6DZ7N)
Shenar's astronomy research team used an instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to look for the chemical fingerprints that magnetic fields can leave on a star's spectrum and found HD45166 has a field strength of 43,000 Gauss. One-thousand-Gauss magnetic fields are pretty rare amongst massive stars, so 43,000 Gauss is really off the chart," says Paul ...