Ultra-long period magnetar: a strange object in space is blasting out radio waves every 18 minutes!

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Has anyone already listened to THAT transmisson?

and this one A radio transient with unusually slow periodic emission - Nature
So, " By measuring the dispersion of the radio pulses with respect to frequency, we have localized the source to within our own Galaxy and suggest that it could be an ultra-long-period magnetar."
 
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