
It’s Not a Pulsar. It’s Not a Magnetar. So What Is This Bizarre Star?
A star 15,000 light-years away is acting unlike anything astronomers have ever seen—flashing every 44 minutes and mysteriously fading over months in both radio and X-ray light. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ICRAR, Curtin Univ./Z. Wang et al.; …