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Radio Wave- and X-Ray-Emitting Star is Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen in Our Galaxy


ASKAP J1832-0911 -- likely a magnetar or an extremely magnetized white dwarf -- emits pulses of radio waves and X-rays for two minutes every 44 minutes, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.

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