'Spooky' mystery space object sending out giant bursts of energy

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An Australian-led team mapping radio waves in the universe has discovered a mysterious object spinning around in space. 9News

has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before.

Spinning around in space, the strange object sends out a beam of radiation that crosses our line of sight, and for a minute in every twenty, is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky.This image shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious repeating transient.Astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the Curtin University Node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, led the team that made the discovery.

ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist and co-author Dr Gemma Anderson said that "when studying transients, you're watching the death of a massive star or the activity of the remnants it leaves behind". Fast transients, like a type of neutron star called a pulsar, flash on and off within milliseconds or seconds.

 

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We already know about it. It’s a bit early though….. ST4 voyagehome

It is rumored to be the destination of all the socks that went missing in the washing machine.

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