Synchronized Stars Power Cosmic Radio Laser
Researchers have helped unravel the mystery of why certain pairs of stars pulse with regular, long-period bursts of radio waves. The particular class of objects they observed come in pairs that always include a compact dead star, called a white dwarf, locked in orbit with an M dwarf, a red star smaller than our Sun. In recent years, astronomers have been puzzled by the fact that a handful of…
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