Scientists Say Mysterious Radio Waves Are Coming from the Center of the Milky Way

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• Scientists Say Mysterious Radio Waves Are Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
  by Joseph Guzman | Oct. 13, 2021, https://thehill.com/
  ”We’ve never seen anything like it.”
  * A new study published this week in the Astrophysical Journal details the discovery of radio waves that appear to be unlike anything the experts have studied before.
  * The radio waves were observed using the ASKAP radio telescope located in the desert of Western Australia.
  * “At first we thought it could be a pulsar — a very dense type of spinning dead star — or else a type of star that emits huge solar flares. But the signals from this new source don’t match what we expect from these types of celestial objects,” Wang said.
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  An international team of astronomers has detected “unusual signals” coming from the heart of the Milky Way galaxy and suspect a “new class of stellar object” could be the source. Objects in the cosmos such as planets, comets, giant clouds of gas and stars have changing magnetic fields and produce radio waves that can be picked up on Earth by large radio telescope arrays positioned all around the planet.
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  But a new study published this week in the Astrophysical Journal details the discovery of radio waves that appear to be unlike anything the experts have studied before.
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  “At first we thought it could be a pulsar — a very dense type of spinning dead star — or else a type of star that emits huge solar flares. But the signals from this new source don’t match what we expect from these types of celestial objects,” Ziteng Wang, lead author of the study and PhD student at the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, said in a statement.
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