Astronomers still find strange objects that oppose expectations. According to BBC News, researchers from the node of the University of Curtin from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have found a strange Milky Sakti object of around 4,000 years of light. Repeated transients send the explosion of a polarized radio energy giant for a full minute every 18 minutes, and appear and disappear for several hours of observation – for context, the pulsar explosion lasts a few seconds or less.
Curiosity is smaller than the sun, but is one of the brightest radio objects in the sky during the explosion. The loss is also unique, according to the main team Dr. Natasha Hurley-Walker. Students Curtin Tyrone O’Doherty first saw objects using a combination of Australian Widefield Murchison Array and new observation methods.
There may be an existing explanation. Hurley-Walker said the data fits the predicted object (but not yet found) known as an ultra-long period magnetar. That is, this is a neutron star rotating at a relatively sluggish speed. Even if it’s the problem, scientists want to know why the object converts magnetic energy to a radio wave with an efficient level. It can also be a white dwarf with a magnetic magnetic field that is extraordinarily strong, or something at all.
Frenzy seems to have subsided, but Hurley-Walker still tracks the object if it shows a strange behavior again. He also plans to filter the archive Array Murchison to learn whether there are similar objects before. Whatever this entity is possible, the findings are significant – they can form our understanding of stars and the universe in general.