Astronomers Have Located the Source of Strange Long-Period Radio Pulses Coming from Deep Space

Mysterious radio pulses from Milky Way ‘unlike anything before’

Astronomers have zeroed in on the surprising origin of the unusual radio pulses.

Astronomers Stunned by Unexplained Radio Pulses in Our Galaxy

For years, astronomers have been scratching their heads over a bizarre phenomenon—radio pulses flashing from deep within our galaxy, like a slow, steady cosmic heartbeat. The signals, pulsing every two hours, seemed to originate from the Big Dipper’s direction. But what could be causing them?Now, scientists have their answer. The pulses come from a rare stellar duo: a dead white dwarf and a cool red dwarf, locked in a tight orbital dance 1,600 l…

Mysterious Signal Coming From a Dead Star and Its Companion

When these stars dance, they make their own music.  Astronomers have tracked down the source of a mysterious radio signal from deep space repeating every two hours. Intriguingly, it's a pair of stars in such a tight orbit that their magnetic fields regularly bump into each other — and it's this bodily percussion that appears to be blasting out the radio emissions we're picking up on Earth, roughly 1,600 light years away. The findings on the bina…

The detection of a neutrino, a stealthic particle with fascinating properties, has made the scientific community sore. Its record energy – more than thirty times higher than all known neutrinos – makes it a candidate of choice to understand the most violent phenomena in the Universe.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses from within our Milky Way galaxy that pulsed every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long radio bursts, lasting between 30 and 90 seconds, appeared to be coming from the constellation Ursa Major, where the Big Dipper is located. Now, astronomers have pinpointed the surprising source of the unusual radio pulses: a dead star, called a …

Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance with another star.