Parkes Radio Telescope Discovers RRATs in Space

02/17/2006 02:03AM

Parkes Radio Telescope Discovers RRATs in Space

A team of astronomers from Australia, the UK, USA, Italy, and Canada using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia has found a new kind of cosmic object: a small, compressed Neutron Star that shows no activity most of the time but once in a while spits out a single burst of high energy radio waves. This new class of objects have been dubbed Rotating Radio Transients or RRATs.


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