Spotted in the sky an object never seen before that releases enormous amounts of energy
A very strange new object has been observed in space. It is a unique phenomenon: a star that emits an enormous amount of energy in the form of electromagnetic pulses at very large intervals, 20 minutes, and then disappears completely from the sky. This is something completely new and never seen before.
Astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker discovered the "ghostly" object in late 2020 when she and her colleagues were scanning radio signals across the sky. “It was a little creepy for an astronomer because there's nothing known in the sky that does,” said Natasha Hurley-Walker, of Curtin University and the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research in Australia, told NBC News . The research was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
“This object was appearing and disappearing within a few hours of our observations.
"Events have been seen before – usually as very rapid events that flash within seconds or milliseconds or as longer pulses that last for days – but previously there were no radio transients that appear and disappear within hours,"
The object is likely a neutron star or, as some astronomers call it, a "dead" star because it ran out of fuel and collapsed, imploding and turning into a neutron core. They are objects already observed before, but usually they rotate at very high speeds for which the impulses are very rapid, at the level of seconds or even less. This "Magnetar", stars that emit electromagnetic pulses, is very slow, and could be in an advanced state of decay.
He said the object is about "4,000 light-years away", which is "really close enough to us" considered "in our galactic courtyard".
Another student who has done research on the mysterious Curtin University object, Tyrone O'Doherty, said, "somehow it's converting magnetic energy into radio waves much more effectively than anything we've seen before." Luckily it is not an alien spaceship headed for earth, otherwise we would go into lockdown again!
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