{"id":88374,"date":"2026-11-13T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88374"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:27:27","slug":"researchers-discover-rare-star-system-that-emits-radio-signals-every-eight-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/researchers-discover-rare-star-system-that-emits-radio-signals-every-eight-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Discover Rare Star System That Emits Radio Signals Every Eight Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Curtin University:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/\">Curtin University<\/a> node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (<a href=\"http:\/\/icrar.org\/\">ICRAR<\/a>) have linked mysterious radio pulses to an unusual pairing of stars \u2014 a dead star that spins every eight minutes and a star similar to our own Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newly discovered system, known as GPM J071507\u2212114153, consists of two stars orbiting each other: a white dwarf \u2014 the dense core left behind when a star dies \u2014 and a G-type star similar to our own Sun.\u00a0 It is the first time radio pulses have been detected from a white dwarf orbiting a Sun-like star. Typically, such pulses are observed in systems with smaller and cooler red dwarf stars, meaning the discovery breaks new ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Curtin University: Scientists at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88375,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88374\/revisions\/88375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}