Scientists Discover Mysterious Light Blinking Every 20 Minutes In Space
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Astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker of Curtin University in Bentley, Western Australia said, "We are all still quite amazed and intrigued and baffled."
Scientists have discovered two stars with mysterious properties. The astronomers found the celestial objects emitting radio waves about every 20 minutes. The most common repeating signals come from pulsars, rotating neutron stars that emit energetic beams like lighthouses, causing them to blink on and off as they rotate towards and away from the Earth, according to National Geographic. Scientists are assuming that they may represent a new type of stellar object.
The two stars which were announced in the journal Nature spin much more slowly than any known neutron star and they have other odd traits as well.
Astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker of Curtin University in Bentley, Western Australia said, "We are all still quite amazed and intrigued and baffled."
