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> its field strength is a whopping 43,000 Gauss.

10,000 Gauss is 1 Tesla. 43,000 Gauss is 4.3T.

For context the most intense magnetic field (in the middle of a sunspot) on the Sun has been about 4000 Gauss.

And the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) uses magnets that generate magnetic fields of up to 8.3 teslas.