Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place of origin. Researchers say that this runaway object is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted. Only about 30 magnetars have been discovered so far. A magnetar is a neutron star with a magnetic field about a trillion times more powerful than Earth’s magnetosphere. If a magnetar were only half the Moon’s distance, its intense field would wipe out the magnetic strip of every credit card on our planet. If a human got within 600 miles of a magnetar it would rip apart every atom inside the body.