Long-period radio transients are relatively new, with several having been discovered recently.
Celestial objects with a changing magnetic field, like the Sun or Jupiter, can produce radio waves.
Luckily, the newly discovered radio transient, GLEAM-X J0704-37, was not hiding behind stars.
The team used multiple telescopes to trace the radio source to a specific object in the sky.Hurley-Walker et al.
Although the team solved one mystery by locating the source of the signal, another mystery now lay ahead.
An M dwarf alone couldnt generate the amount of energy were seeing, Hurley-Walker said.
The M dwarfs are low-mass stars that have a mere fraction of the Suns mass and luminosity.
Together, they power radio emission, Hurley-Walker said.
There could be a lot more weird cosmic sources pulsing with energy across the universe.
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