A radio pulsing white dwarf binary star - brightness changes every 2 minutes

[gary]

T.R. Marsh et. al. reports in Nature today on "A radio pulsing white dwarf binary star".



Full text here -
http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1627/eso1627a.pdf



Sydney Morning Herald article by Maddie Stone here including animation -
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/the-terrifying-reason-this-star-flickers-every-two-minutes-20160801-gqi802.html

[bojan]

Amazing...

I also read comments at the bottom of the article in Sydney Herald - they are even more amazing (in a completely different way. Perhaps I shouln't have mention that at all... but I just couldn't help myself).