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A team of researchers led by Dr. Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astrophysicist from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), has detected an unusual object in space that emits a giant burst of energy about three times per hour.<\/p>\n<p>According to phys.org, the object in question is \u201cunlike anything astronomers have seen before\u201d, though the team suspects that their find could be a neutron star or a white dwarf with an \u201cultra-powerful\u201d magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>The object, which becomes \u201cone of the brightest radio sources in the sky\u201d for one minute in every 20 as it sends out a beam of radiation that crosses our planet&#8217;s line of sight, was spotted by Curtin University honours student Tyrone O&#8217;Doherty using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, with O&#8217;Doherty remarking that &#8220;the MWA&#8217;s wide field of view and extreme sensitivity are perfect for surveying the entire sky and detecting the unexpected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Dr. Gemma Anderson, ICRAR-Curtin astrophysicist and co-author of the new study, noted that the object was smaller than the sun and very bright, emitting highly-polarised radio waves, Hurley-Walker suggested that the observations \u201cmatch a predicted astrophysical object called an ultra-long period magnetar\u201d, as the media outlet put it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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