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

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• xqcgrek2 14 minutes ago
  apparently its a class of objects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_period_radio_transient
• vegnus 30 minutes ago
  Radio... Live transmission?
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  • ceejayoz 25 minutes ago
    I mean, yes. Every star does.

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

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

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    • vegnus 22 minutes ago
      Sorry I was making a dumb joke about a song
    • y-curious 19 minutes ago
      You responded to a “joke” but hey this is cool new info for me
• martijnvds 38 minutes ago
  The signal? "Replace smoke alarm battery"
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  • bombcar 19 minutes ago
    Then it would be periodic but so long between signals that it would be nearly impossible to determine where it was coming from.