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ASKAP radio telescope
Coverage of ASKAP radio telescope in the Nexus archive.
- A stellar “Rosetta stone” reveals the source of mysterious cosmic signals
Astronomers used Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope to trace repeating cosmic signals to a rare stellar system where a white dwarf siphons material from a red dwarf companion, emitting radio waves and X-rays every 1.4 hours. The discovery solves a long-standing mystery about the source of these signals.