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An international team led by University of Sydney PhD student Kovi Rose has identified ASKAP J1745-5051, an accreting white dwarf binary system, as the first object to unify key properties of long-period radio transients — earning it the label "Rosetta Stone" for these mysterious cosmic signals. The discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, establishes that at least some of these enigmatic radio sources originate from compact binary star systems rather than exotic neutron stars, but significant open questions remain about whether a single explanation can account for the full diversity of transient radio phenomena observed across the galaxy.