Deep space system emitting signals every 8 minutes discovered

The beams from the white dwarf pass through the other star's atmosphere, revealing clues about its behavior. (ICRAR via SWNS) By Talker By Stephen BeechAn unusual star system that emits mysterious radio signals every eight minutes has been discovered in deep space.Astronomers in Australia have linked the regular radio pulses to an unusual pairing of celestial bodies 5,000 light-years from Earth.One is a dead star that spins every eight minutes, and the other is a star similar to our own sun.They explained that the newly discovered system, known as GPM J071507−114153, consists of two stars orbiting each other: a white dwarf — the dense core left behind when a star dies — and a G-type star similar to the sun.

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