This is an artists conception of a slowly rotating neutron star. NASA photos

Neutron star SGR 0418+5729 shows off

The human journey to the beginning of the universe discovered another neutron star on June 5, 2009 that's currently keeping astronomers and space scientists busy looking into the unusual properties of this newest member of the pulsar zoo. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra, Swift and Rossi X-ray observatories, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and ESA’s XMM-Newton te...