Astronomers have identified the most likely source of a strange radio signal, pulsing every 8 minutes and first picked up in Australia back in 2024, actually comes from.
Turns out, it's from a star system with two stars: one is a white dwarf, and the other is pretty similar to our sun.
This is the first time scientists have seen this kind of signal coming from such a pair, making it a pretty unique find.
Researchers analyzed 214 pulses, found flares
The team dug deep, analyzing 214 pulses to understand what was really going on.
They noticed some cool stuff, like flares on the companion star and new details about how these long-period signals work.
As Natasha Hurley-Walker, a corresponding author of the study and an astronomer at Curtin University in Australia, put it, "It's amazing that by using radio wavelengths we can detect the storms on a star over 5,000 light-years away."