Artwork: A highly magnetised rotating neutron star. Astronomers say one of these could be a source of the signals
A Magnetar?........................
Posted on 01/10/2019 6:35:36 AM PST by Red Badger
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.
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Artwork: A highly magnetised rotating neutron star. Astronomers say one of these could be a source of the signals
A Magnetar?........................
Ping!.................
If it’s Morse Code that says “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine,” I’m not buying it.
Have you seen our oumuamua?
No, but I seen yo mama....................Yo mama so big I don’t need a telescope to see her in the next galaxy!..............
Hey! Don't you be talkin' about my oumuamua!
Actually, the message was:
"Have you seen your mother baby, standing in the shadows?"
Now, that signal is really old news.
Is that related to ummagumma? Engaging interstellar overdrive, set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Translated: I am Nomad. I must sterilize all inferior life forms. I seek the Creator, Jackson Roy Kirk.
“Send more Chuck Berry”
In a galaxy far far away: “TURN THAT STEREO DOWN! I’m can’t hear myself think”
We still have a few humpback whales left, correct?
Then V’ger stole the plot, and our Deltan.
We still have nukwear wessels, too, but Alameda is lost.
It says: “Don’t eat the apple, Eve!”....................
Using the word “signal” presupposes a message sent by someone or something. Anyone using such an unstated premise in a public discussion is uttering junk science.
“SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY”
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