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Published online 15 February 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060213-6
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Stuttering stars found
Unpredictable cousins of pulsars baffle astronomers.
Astronomers have stumbled upon a bizarre kind of star that stutters out fleeting flashes of radio waves.
"It's quite unusual to find such a different type of object," says Andrew Lyne, an astronomer from the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, and part of the international team that made the discovery.
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