Astronomy Today@astronomytodayAstronomers in Australia have linked a star system 5,000 light-years away to radio pulses arriving every eight minutes. It pairs a white dwarf, the leftover core of a burnt-out star, with a star much like ours.
It is the first time such pulses have been traced to a white dwarf orbiting a star like the Sun. The pulses also revealed flares on the companion, the kind that create auroras on Earth.
The Murchison Widefield Array and MeerKAT telescopes located the system, and Hawaii's Keck Observatory confirmed the companion star.
