The latest observations from Insight-HXMT were published online in Nature Astronomy on Feb. 18. Insight-HXMT has discovered the very first X-ray burst associated with a fast radio burst (FRB) and has identified that it originated from soft-gamma repeater (SGR) J1935+2154, which is a magnetar in our Milky Way. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-insight-hxmt-insight-fast-radio.html…
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China’s huge FAST telescope to open to international observers
FAST’s 500-meter (1,640-foot) dish makes it the world’s largest single-dish radio observatory. It’s expected to open to international observers in 2021. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/worlds-largest-radio-telescope-china-fast…
Astronomers Trace Mysterious Fast Radio Burst To Extreme, Rare Star
The first detection of a fast radio burst inside the Milky Way leads scientists back to a magnetar, partially solving a long-standing mystery. CNET reports: Sifting through a trove of radio telescope data in 2007, Duncan Lorimer, an astrophysicist at West Virginia University, spotted something unusual. Data obtained six years earlier showed a brief, energetic burst, lasting no more than 5…
Fast radio burst is traced back to its source
For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (or FRB) back to its original source – a magnetar. Fast radio bursts, which last mere m… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340628/fast-radio-burst-is-traced-back-to-its-source…
We Finally Know What’s Been Making Fast Radio Bursts
Today, researchers are announcing they’ve solved one of the questions that’s been nagging them over the past decade: what exactly produces the weird phenomena known as fast radio bursts (FRBs)? From a report: As their name implies, FRBs involve a sudden blast of radio-frequency radiation that lasts just a few microseconds. We didn’t even know that FRBs existed until 2007 but…
Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ traced to a known object in the Milky Way for the first time ever
Astronomers detected a fast radio burst inside the Milky Way for the first time ever, and traced it to a known magnetar. Source: https://www.livescience.com/milky-way-frb-magnetar.html
The first star in our galaxy caught sending out fast radio bursts is doing it again
A little dead star that dazzled us earlier this year is not done with its shenanigans. Source: https://www.livescience.com/that-galactic-frb-has-been-caught-spitting-out-more-strange-radio-bursts.html
Repeating fast radio burst woke up again on schedule. Now what?
FRB 121102 is one of the few known repeating fast radio bursts, and astronomers are trying to use this new period of activity to understand it better. Some predict the current active phase should end sometime between August 31 and September 9. Will it? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/repeating-fast-radio-burst-frb-121102-wakes-up-chime…
Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ detected closer to Earth than ever before
Scientists traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to a known star inside the Milky Way for the first time. Source: https://www.livescience.com/fast-radio-burst-magnetar-milky-way.html
How many ETs are in our galaxy? Ask the Alien Civilization Calculator
Researchers at Omni Calculator have created the Alien Civilization Calculator, a unique combination of two different methods of trying to determine how many advanced alien civilizations may exist in our galaxy. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/alien-civilization-calculator-extraterrestrial-intelligence-seti…