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Is alien life trying to contact Earth?
Astronomers from Curtin University have discovered a star 15,000 light years away that continuously emits radio pulses every 22 minutes.
Magnetar
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The Australian Observatory caught the most unusual radio signal
A dead world located 8,100 light years away from us suddenly emitted a never-before-seen radio signal after more than 10 years of disappearance.
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The new discovery of cosmic explosion creates gold and platinum
From our first observation of the collision of neutron stars in 2017, scientists realized that the 2016 gamma ray explosion was a kilonova, the type of explosion that pr…
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XMM-Newton and the observation signs on the
X-ray and gamma rays data from XMM-Newton of ESA and all orbit observations were used for the first time to check the physical processes that make up the magnetar emitti…
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The strange magnetic field of the star
Astronomers have discovered the most bizarre cosmic object flashes 40 times before disappearing. It is possible that this is a missing link in the neutron star family, t…