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Discovery of stars
November 29 , 2021
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- Astronomers from the Pune-based National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) have discovered eight stars.
- They belong to a rare class called Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitters or MRPs.
- MRPs were discovered using ‘Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT)’ located in Pune.
- The team had also discovered three more similar stars in the past using Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT).
- Thus, there are 15 known MRPs so far.
- 11 MRPs were discovered with GMRT.
- Eight of MRPs were discovered in 2021 alone.
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