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Serendipitous observations have revealed fast optical flaring after the onset of X-ray-burst activity from a source in our Milky Way galaxy. It could be the first time this has been observed in a rare kind of neutron star.

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Figure 1: Candidate magnetars in the Milky Way.

E. L. WRIGHT (UCLA)/COBE PROJECT/DIRBE/NASA

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  1. Chryssa Kouveliotou is at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35805, USA. chryssa.kouveliotou@nasa.gov ,

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Kouveliotou, C. How fast can you blink?. Nature 455, 477–478 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455477a

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