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Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every 8 minutes

27 points giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago 7 comments

martijnvds 36 minutes ago | parent

The signal? "Replace smoke alarm battery"

bombcar 18 minutes ago | parent

Then it would be periodic but so long between signals that it would be nearly impossible to determine where it was coming from.

vegnus 29 minutes ago | parent

Radio... Live transmission?

ceejayoz 24 minutes ago | parent

I mean, yes. Every star does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radio_emission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_telescope

vegnus 21 minutes ago | parent

Sorry I was making a dumb joke about a song

y-curious 18 minutes ago | parent

You responded to a “joke” but hey this is cool new info for me

xqcgrek2 13 minutes ago | parent

apparently its a class of objects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_period_radio_transient