Cosmic flashes come in all different sizes (IMAGE)

Chalmers University of Technology

Cosmic flashes come in all different sizes

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On May 24, four European telescopes took part in the global effort to understand mysterious cosmic flashes. The telescopes captured flashes of radio waves from an extreme, magnetised star in our galaxy. All are shown in this illustration.

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Danielle Futselaar/artsource.nl

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