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Astounding Discovery: Radio Pulses from Binary Star System!

3/18/2025

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Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, tracing repeating radio pulses from a binary star system 1,600 light-years away, featuring a white dwarf and a red dwarf. Their magnetic dance creates bursts every 125.5 minutes, defying previous beliefs that only neutron stars could emit such signals and paving the way for fresh insights into stellar evolution.

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Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, tracing repeating radio pulses from a binary star system 1,600 light-years away, featuring a white dwarf and a red dwarf. Their magnetic dance creates bursts every 125.5 minutes, defying previous beliefs that only neutron stars could emit such signals and paving the way for fresh insights into stellar evolution.