Scientists uncover evidence of stars turning magnetic post-merge

Scientists have discovered, quite surprisingly, that two stars probably clashed and merged to form a magnetic star. 

While closely observing a pair of stars at the epicenter of a spectacular cloud of gas and dust, they noticed one star was seemingly younger while the other was magnetic.

A team of astronomers observed the stellar twins in the HD 148937 system and the surrounding nebula–NGC 6164/6165.