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Astronomers detect powerful cosmic object unlike anything they've seen before


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A team mapping radio waves has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The team thinks it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf—collapsed cores of stars