Meet the unlikely pair of stars behind mysterious signals from space (VIDEO)
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Scientists at the Curtin University node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have linked mysterious radio pulses to an unusual pairing of stars — a dead star that spins every eight minutes and a star similar to our own Sun.
The newly discovered system, known as GPM J071507−114153, consists of two stars orbiting each other: a white dwarf — the dense core left behind when a star dies — and a G-type star similar to our own Sun.
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Natasha Hurley-Walker
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