Star's intense radiation beams whip neighboring red dwarf
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 12:11
in Astronomy & Space
New research from the University of Warwick finds a new type of exotic binary star, in which a rapidly-spinning burnt-out stellar remnant called a white dwarf sweeps powerful beams of particles and radiation over its nearby companion star, causing it to pulse across almost the entire electromagnetic spectrum from the ultraviolet to radio.