06-29-2019, 06:28 PM
"Astronomers Make History In A Split Second"
For the first time ever, the precise location of what's known as a "fast radio burst" has been achieved using a number of telescopes around the planet including the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea. These mysterious radio bursts only last for milliseconds and clearly come from a very energetic event, but what that actual event is remains a mystery. Now that the location of one of them has been pinned down, attempting to understand their cause has been made a lot less complicated.
http://www.keckobservatory.org/frb-askap/
"The galaxy from which the burst originated was then imaged by three of the world’s largest optical telescopes – W. M. Keck Observatory, Gemini South, and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope – and published online today in the journal Science.
“This is the big breakthrough the field has been waiting for since astronomers discovered fast radio bursts in 2007,” said CSIRO lead author Keith Bannister."
For the first time ever, the precise location of what's known as a "fast radio burst" has been achieved using a number of telescopes around the planet including the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea. These mysterious radio bursts only last for milliseconds and clearly come from a very energetic event, but what that actual event is remains a mystery. Now that the location of one of them has been pinned down, attempting to understand their cause has been made a lot less complicated.
http://www.keckobservatory.org/frb-askap/
"The galaxy from which the burst originated was then imaged by three of the world’s largest optical telescopes – W. M. Keck Observatory, Gemini South, and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope – and published online today in the journal Science.
“This is the big breakthrough the field has been waiting for since astronomers discovered fast radio bursts in 2007,” said CSIRO lead author Keith Bannister."