{"id":17491,"date":"2016-02-26T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17491"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T16:24:33","slug":"radio-astronomers-track-the-source-of-fast-radio-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/radio-astronomers-track-the-source-of-fast-radio-bursts\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio astronomers track the source of fast radio bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PARI-East-26M-Antenna\"<\/a>(Source: BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

For the first time, scientists have tracked the source of a “fast radio burst” – a fleeting explosion of radio waves which, in this case, came from a galaxy six billion light-years away.<\/em><\/p>\n

The cause of the big flash, only the seventeenth ever detected, remains a puzzle, but spotting a host galaxy is a key moment in the study of such bursts.<\/em><\/p>\n

It also allowed the team to measure how much matter got in the way of the waves and thus to “weigh the Universe”.<\/em><\/p>\n

Their findings are published in Nature<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Continue reading on the BBC website…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Being a fan of radio astronomy, I find this sort of news fascinating.<\/p>\n

Six billion<\/em> light-years…that’s some serious<\/em>\u00a0DX!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: BBC) For the first time, scientists have tracked the source of a “fast radio burst” – a fleeting explosion of radio waves which, in this case, came from a galaxy six billion light-years away. The cause of the big flash, only the seventeenth ever detected, remains a puzzle, but spotting a host galaxy is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4579,4789,4788,581],"class_list":["post-17491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-astronomy","tag-fast-radio-bursts","tag-frb","tag-radio-astronomy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4y7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35535,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/fast-radio-bursts-frbs-from-a-distant-galaxy-detected\/","url_meta":{"origin":17491,"position":0},"title":"Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from a distant galaxy detected","author":"Thomas","date":"January 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors who've shared the following news: (Source: Southgate ARC) Mysterious radio signals from deep space detected BBC News report astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada. 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