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Astronomer Explains Mystery Space Object Discovery
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January 30, 2022
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2:08Now PlayingAstronomers in Western Australia have discovered a very bright radio object in the Milky Way that, for three months in 2018, emitted very powerful bursts of energy every 18 minutes for up to a minute each time.
The astronomers who made the discovery think this is a new type of space object but are yet to identify it.
Artificial sources such as potential alien lifeforms or interferences coming from the Earth have been ruled out.
Other space objects emitting radio transmissions, like pulsars, do it very quickly, in a matter of seconds or even faster, but the newly discovered object does it much more slowly (every 18 minutes) which makes it unique and intriguing to astrophysicists.
The object was found by Curtin University PhD student Tyrone O'Doherty working at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Western Australia.
O'Doherty was sifting through data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope when he made the discovery.
The discovery was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
A video animation was made by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) to better visualize what the object does when emitting energy and what it could be.
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