<ul><li>Astronomers have traced repeating radio bursts from space back to a red dwarf star and a white dwarf in a binary orbit.</li><li>These bursts were discovered in 2022 and have puzzled astronomers due to their slow repetition and their origin was unknown.</li><li>The discovery of a new source called GLEAM-X J0704-37, emitting minute-long pulses every 2.9 hours, helped in solving the mystery.</li><li>Observations from the MeerKAT telescope located the source as a red dwarf star, indicating a white dwarf in a binary orbit as the unseen radio emitter.</li></ul>

Astronomers pinpoint the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space

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