Called ILT J1101 + 5521 ... one could offer the sensitivity needed to unravel the mystery. The post This dead star is still sending us radio signals appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.

"Magnetars are neutron stars — the dead remnants of stars ... was previously thought to be the side effect of a supernova called HB9, as the two are tantalizingly close in the sky over Earth.

These extremely rare repeating radio pulses are similar to what's emitted by rapidly rotating stars called pulsars ... are sometimes referred to as "dead stars" because they're the leftover ...