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Title: Storm of Strange Radio Bursts Emerges From Deep Space
Source:
National Geographic
URL Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ ... e-breakthrough-listen-science/
Published: Sep 1, 2017
Author: Nadia Drake
Post Date: 2017-09-05 13:37:16 by farmfriend
Keywords: None
Views: 339
Comments: 6
Something has breathed new life into a faraway cosmic mystery machine and caused it to repeatedly hurl tremendous amounts of energy into the void. It’s not clear exactly what that object is, but scientists refer to the observable phenomenon as a fast radio burst: a fleeting but extremely powerful blast of radio waves. In this case, astronomers caught a rapid stream of radio bursts coming from a galaxy about three billion light-years away. Scientists with the Breakthrough Listen project made the discovery because, fortunately, they had a pretty good idea where to look. The team had tuned the giant Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to a spot on the sky where a fast radio burst known as FRB 121102 had previously been singing to the stars.
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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)
a rapid stream of radio bursts coming from a galaxy about three billion light-years away. FRB 121102 Danger Will Robinson.!
LOL
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Will Robinson aside, it could have been a Supernova that caused the radio emissions. ;)
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a wormhole.?
Supernovas last longer than a few milliseconds.
It's not clear exactly what that object is, but scientists refer to the observable phenomenon as a fast radio burst: a fleeting but extremely powerful blast of radio waves.
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#5. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
it could have been
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
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