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Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy
New Scientist ^ | April 14th, 2010

Posted on 04/14/2010 2:55:48 PM PDT by TaraP

There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.

"We don't know what it is," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK.

The thing appeared in May last year, while Muxlow and his colleagues were monitoring an unrelated stellar explosion in M82 using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. A bright spot of radio emission emerged over only a few days, quite rapidly in astronomical terms. Since then it has done very little except baffle astrophysicists.

It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; haltonarp; m82; quasar; radiowave; stringtheory; xplanets
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To: TaraP

Hey Ken, what’s the frequency?


21 posted on 04/14/2010 3:07:39 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: SparkyBass

LOL....The head Cookmaster!


22 posted on 04/14/2010 3:07:58 PM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: TaraP

who killed j.r.?


23 posted on 04/14/2010 3:09:31 PM PDT by screaming eagle2 (No matter what you call it,a pre-owned automobile is STILL A USED CAR!!!)
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To: TaraP

There Rush goes, adding more affiliates.:)


24 posted on 04/14/2010 3:09:34 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Truthers to the Left of me, Birthers (pretending to be) to the Right of me!)
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To: Titus-Maximus; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono
Some nice interplanetary music, I tell you!


25 posted on 04/14/2010 3:10:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: colorado tanker

Eh, I don’t want to hear martian music. I finally saw Close Encounters. The whole movie ends with an early disco rave in the desert.


26 posted on 04/14/2010 3:11:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: TaraP

Hmmm, the source of Rove’s earthquake machine. Sure been active this year.


27 posted on 04/14/2010 3:11:24 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: All
Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? And our universe may sit in another universe's black hole, equations predict.
28 posted on 04/14/2010 3:11:57 PM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: TaraP
Re-runs of Giligan's Island.

"Those poor, poor people . . . "

29 posted on 04/14/2010 3:13:49 PM PDT by jeffc (I now live in National Socialist America)
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To: TaraP

30 posted on 04/14/2010 3:14:19 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: a fool in paradise
Rumor is they come back to rave each year.


31 posted on 04/14/2010 3:15:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: TaraP; onyx; SoCalPol
"We endorse Ron Paul, he is one of us."

:-)

32 posted on 04/14/2010 3:17:23 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: TaraP
An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.

Actually, it began doing this at least 12M years ago. We're just getting the news.

33 posted on 04/14/2010 3:18:14 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: jeffc

Ah, yes, the ‘historical documents’.


34 posted on 04/14/2010 3:18:24 PM PDT by HGSW0904
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To: Lakeshark
ROTFLMAO!

Put down the ____.

35 posted on 04/14/2010 3:19:53 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: TaraP
Better get a copy of Indian Love Call.
36 posted on 04/14/2010 3:22:54 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: TaraP

It’s massive, it’s emitting signals, it’s moving fast....

Barack Obama’s ego?


37 posted on 04/14/2010 3:27:47 PM PDT by Bullish (Light skinned with no negro dialect (unless I want one))
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To: TaraP

Obama had asked his birth hospital to fax his long form birth certificate.


38 posted on 04/14/2010 3:27:47 PM PDT by Sefton (Marxism>Leninism>Stalinism>Trotskism>Maoism>Obamaism)
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To: TaraP

bflr


39 posted on 04/14/2010 3:28:53 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: TaraP

NASA is trying to figure out how this figures into their “Green” mandate.


40 posted on 04/14/2010 3:32:48 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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