Astronomers have discovered a new gas cloud created by winds blown from a rapidly spinning neutron star, naming it "Potoroo" after a small Australian marsupial.
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In June 2022, a radio telescope in Western Australia detected a fleeting radio signal from a galaxy over 10 billion light-years from Earth. Now, a team of astronomers that studied the blast have confirmed it’s the most distant of its kind yet seen.
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