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 ...
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That would require the equipment! LOL.
And I learned on a typewriter!
Is there a PATTERN?
Another sign in the heavens?
What are we to make of this?
Not sure.. yet
Right now looking into a Meteor sighting tonight in several states....
QSL... which is Ham speak for basically “roger that or affirmative or received or simply yes”.
LLS
Grant Trolling alert ....
Maybe we can get to Mars quicker if we tell Obama & his Muslim pals that we discovered life on that planet & they flipped off The Prophet? Instant solar system Jihad!
BT
ROGER
BT
AR
oh my gosh that is a good one!
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