01-04-2017, 05:21 PM
Multiple repeated fast radio bursts have been detected, and their source confirmed by Gemini North on Mauna Kea. The bursts are extremely powerful, allowing their reception from 3 billion miles away here on earth. What are they? Natural events or an advanced civilization sending out a message to other life forms in the universe? Stay tuned...
To more precisely zero in on its location, Chatterjee and his co-authors turned to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array (VLA). In 83 hours of observing time last year, they watched FBR 121102 fire off nine additional times, all at a consistent sky position. Follow-up observations with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii revealed a very faint dwarf galaxy at precisely the location of the source.
http://gizmodo.com/astronomers-pinpointe...1790760275
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
To more precisely zero in on its location, Chatterjee and his co-authors turned to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array (VLA). In 83 hours of observing time last year, they watched FBR 121102 fire off nine additional times, all at a consistent sky position. Follow-up observations with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii revealed a very faint dwarf galaxy at precisely the location of the source.
http://gizmodo.com/astronomers-pinpointe...1790760275
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves