Sam McSweeney

Lead author; commissioning scientist, Square Kilometre Array Observatory

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Last updated Nov 12, 2026

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Astronomers trace eight-minute radio pulses to a white dwarf and a Sun-like star

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Led the discovery while at Curtin University's ICRAR node

A dead star about two-thirds the mass of the Sun is flashing radio waves every 7.9 minutes. Its companion is a star with roughly the Sun's mass and temperature.

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