Magnetar
A magnetar is an exotic type of neutron star, its defining feature that it has an ultra-powerful magnetic field. The field is about 1,000 times stronger than a normal neutron star and about a trillion times stronger than the Earth’s. Magnetars are, by far, the most magnetic stars in the universe. If you were to venture closer to a magnetar than about 600 miles (1,000 km), you would die very quickly. Its magnetic field would destroy your body, tearing away electrons from your atoms and converting you into a cloud of monatomic ions , that is, single atoms without electrons. They are formed in the same way as all neutron star, through the core-collapse of a massive star in a supernova explosion. It is not entirely clear what conditions cause a magnetar to be created instead of an ordinary neutron star or pulsar, but in order to achieve such strong magnetic fields, some theories suggest the neutron star must initially rotate between 100 and 1,000 times p...