POPULAR SCIENCE: Astronomers spot repeating radio burst patterns from deep space

  • Kaustubh Rajwade

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Astronomers have spent six years watching an unknown object a million, billion light years away explode again and again. They still don’t know what’s expelling the violent bursts of energy, but one team thinks they’ve figured out at least when the extragalactic pyrotechnics are likely to go off. If they’re right, the object will be shooting out flares all summer long—potentially providing a string of new hints to one of the greatest mysteries in modern astronomy.

Period12 Jun 2020

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  • TitleAstronomers spot repeating radio burst patterns from deep space
    Media name/outletPopular Science
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    Date12/06/20
    DescriptionAstronomers have spent six years watching an unknown object a million, billion light years away explode again and again. They still don’t know what’s expelling the violent bursts of energy, but one team thinks they’ve figured out at least when the extragalactic pyrotechnics are likely to go off. If they’re right, the object will be shooting out flares all summer long—potentially providing a string of new hints to one of the greatest mysteries in modern astronomy.
    URLhttps://www.popsci.com/story/science/fast-radio-bursts-deep-space/
    PersonsKaustubh Rajwade
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  • astronomy