Alien Signal? Scientists Decipher A Mysterious Repeating Super Bright Pulsating Object in Milkyway
#thecosmosnews Object found in the Milky Way unlike anything astronomers have seen Astronomers found a spinning object emitting ultra-powerful radio waves in our "galactic backyard." It s the latest in a series of mysterious radio signals that may point to new types of dead stars. Astronomers are looking for more of these signals — and hoping ones they ve discovered will reappear. A spinning object in our neighborhood of the galaxy is beaming powerful radio waves at Earth — and astronomers don t know what it is. The object is smaller than the sun and it must be spinning, because it only appears as an ultra-powerful radio signal for about one minute every 20 minutes, according to the Australian researchers studying it. The signal appeared and disappeared at this rhythm for several hours of telescope observations between January and March 2018. During its minute-long broadcasts, it was among the strongest radio signals in the sky. "That was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer, because there s nothing known in the sky that does that," Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astrophysicist at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, who discovered the object, said in a press release.