{"id":167935,"date":"2023-07-20T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T03:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/unusual-type-of-stellar-object-discovered-beaming-out-radio-waves"},"modified":"2023-07-20T22:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T03:23:27","slug":"unusual-type-of-stellar-object-discovered-beaming-out-radio-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/unusual-type-of-stellar-object-discovered-beaming-out-radio-waves","title":{"rendered":"Unusual type of stellar object discovered beaming out radio waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unusual-type-of-stellar-object-discovered-beaming-out-radio-waves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone O\u2019Doherty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/26\/world\/unusual-space-object-transient-scn\/index.html\">spotted a spinning celestial space object<\/a> in March 2018. The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation three times per hour.<\/p>\n<p>In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth through radio telescopes,<strong> <\/strong>acting like a celestial lighthouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe. Initially, Curtin University doctoral student Tyrone O\u2019Doherty spotted a spinning celestial space object in March 2018. The unfamiliar object released giant bursts of energy and beamed out radiation three times per hour. In those [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}