Scientists Find Cosmic 'Rosetta Stone' To Decode Baffling Signals From Deep Space - ScienceAlert
Astronomers have identified a magnetic cataclysmic variable star that may explain the origin of mysterious long-period radio transients (LPTs) in the Milky Way. This discovery provides a potential 'Rosetta Stone' for understanding these rare, pulsating cosmic signals.
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Solving the mystery of LPTs advances our fundamental understanding of stellar evolution and high-energy astrophysical phenomena.
Add ScienceAlert on Google An artist's impression of a cataclysmic variable binary. (Science Photo Library/Photolibrary Video/Getty Images) Just a few years ago, a strange signal was received from the plane of the Milky Way.
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