beyond Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Artwork: A highly magnetised rotating neutron star. Astronomers say one of these could be a source of the signals Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada. The precise nature and origin of the blasts of radio waves is unknown. Among the 13 fast radio bursts, known as FRBs, was a very unusual repeating signal, coming from the same source about 1.5 billion light years away. Such an event has only been reported once before, by a different telescope. "Knowing that there is another suggests that there could be more out there," said Ingrid Stairs, an astrophysicist from the University of British Columbia (UBC). "And with more repeaters and more sources available for study, we may be able to understand these cosmic puzzles - where they're from and what causes them." The CHIME observatory, located in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, consists of four 100-metre-long, semi-cylindrical antennas, which scan the entire northern sky each day. The telescope only got up and running last year, detecting 13 of the radio bursts almost immediately, including the repeater. Canada's new radio telescope, CHIME The research has now been published in the journal Nature. "We have discovered a second repeater and its properties are very similar to the first repeater," said Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University, Canada. "This tells us more about the properties of repeaters as a population." FRBs are short, bright flashes of radio waves. So far, scientists have detected about 60 single fast radio bursts and two that repeat. They believe there could be as many as a thousand FRBs in the sky every day. There are a number of theories about what could be causing them. They include a neutron star with a very strong magnetic field that is spinning very rapidly, two neutron stars merging together, and, among a minority of observers, some form of alien spaceship. I think about you. But I don't say it anymore -Marguerite Duras, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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XianGe Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Must be Matt damon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaur4man Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 54 minutes ago, XianGe said: Must be Matt damon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guan084 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 6 hours ago, XianGe said: Must be Matt damon How much money must Hollywood spend this time to go save him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XianGe Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Guan084 said: How much money must Hollywood spend this time to go save him? Minimum 500B... https://www.quora.com/How-much-money-has-been-spent-attempting-to-bring-Matt-Damon-back-from-distant-places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynical Ape Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 "They" are somewhere out there.... Good content = Topics that genuinely encourages and stimulates interaction/banter. Bad content = Clickbaits, brag posts and social media news feed that nobody gives a flying fuck about + waste of server storage space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynical Ape Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, aaur4man said: Lulz, I think this is straight out of a movie too, but ish this one: Edited February 2, 2019 by Cynical Ape Good content = Topics that genuinely encourages and stimulates interaction/banter. Bad content = Clickbaits, brag posts and social media news feed that nobody gives a flying fuck about + waste of server storage space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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