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02-24-2016, 09:30 PM
Mysterious burst of radio waves traced to galaxy billions of light-years away
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For the first time, a mysterious blast of energy k**wn as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) has been precisely traced to a distant galaxy, bringing scientists even closer to figuring out the origins of these odd cosmic flashes.
On April 18, 2015, a telescope caught sight of the FRB, and mere hours later, other telescopes found its location, tracing the source of the burst to a galaxy about 6 billion light-years away, according to a new study (http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature17140) published in the journal Nature this week.
This marks the first time the distance to an FRB has been measured.
FRBs send out as much energy in a fraction of a second as the sun puts out in 10,000 years, but they*are exceedingly difficult to find.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/24/fast-radio-burst-seen-in-distant-universe/)
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For the first time, a mysterious blast of energy k**wn as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) has been precisely traced to a distant galaxy, bringing scientists even closer to figuring out the origins of these odd cosmic flashes.
On April 18, 2015, a telescope caught sight of the FRB, and mere hours later, other telescopes found its location, tracing the source of the burst to a galaxy about 6 billion light-years away, according to a new study (http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature17140) published in the journal Nature this week.
This marks the first time the distance to an FRB has been measured.
FRBs send out as much energy in a fraction of a second as the sun puts out in 10,000 years, but they*are exceedingly difficult to find.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/24/fast-radio-burst-seen-in-distant-universe/)
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