Australian scientists discover ‘spooky’ object beaming out from space that flashes on and off

Telescope pictures show the Milky Way with a bright dot marking the location of the object in our galactic back yard'

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I think it's real," Curtin University student Tyrone O'Doherty told his supervisors when he spotted the anomaly.

And it was real, as it turns out. The object beaming out from space was also spooky", and in our galactic back yard".