SYDNEY, Jan 27 — Australian researchers have discovered a strange spinning object in the Milky Way they say is unlike anything astronomers have ever seen.
The pulse comes “every 18.18 minutes, like clockwork,” said astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker, who led the investigation after the student’s discovery, using a telescope in the Western Australian outback known as the Murchison Widefield Array. Finding this object was “kind of spooky for an astronomer,” she said, “because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that.” Trawling back through years of data, they have been able to establish a few facts: the object is about 4,000 light-years from Earth, is incredibly bright and has an extremely strong magnetic field. “If you do all of the mathematics, you find that they shouldn’t have enough power to produce these kind of radio waves every 20 minutes,” Hurley-Walker said.
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