Astronomy
The SKA’s the limit after sister telescope finds something very weird indeed
Discovery of strange ‘collapsed star’ reveals the exciting potential of SA’s Square Kilometre Array
31 January 2022 - 19:11
A telescope that’s a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array in SA has helped a group of scientists discover something very unusual: the core of a collapsed star that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour...
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