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Ben Turner

'Unlike anything we have seen before': Astronomers discover mysterious object firing strange signals at Earth every 44 minutes

A photograph of the region of sky surrounding ASKAP J1832-0911.

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object flashing strange signals from deep space, and they have no idea what it is.

The object, named ASKAP J1832-0911, spits out pulses of radio waves and X-rays for two minutes straight, once every 44 minutes.

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