Showing posts with label Radio Dishes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Radio Dishes. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2018

Mysterious Light Flashes Are Coming from Deep Space

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sterious Light Flashes Are Coming from Deep Space,
Last year's mysterious outburst of deep-space light flashes was even more frenzied than previously thought, a new study reports.
     On Aug. 26, 2017, astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project — a $100 million effort to hunt for signs of intelligent alien life — spotted 21 repeating light pulses called fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from the dwarf galaxy FRB 121102 within the span of 1 hour.
Mike Wall
Space.com
9-11-18

Some scientists think FRBs come from fast-rotating neutron stars, but their source has not been nailed down. And that explains Breakthrough Listen's interest: It's possible that the bursts are produced by intelligent extraterrestrials, perhaps to blast space-sailing craft through the cosmos at incredible speeds, some folks have speculated.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Evidence of Alien Civilization? Deep Space Radio Waves Baffle Scientists

The Parkes Observatory in Australia

By Bryan Nelson
www.mnn.com
8-13-15


Strange bursts of radio waves have a pattern
that can't be explained by known phenomenon

     In the 1997 film "Contact," which was an adaptation of a novel written by Carl Sagan, an astrophysicist played by Jodie Foster becomes the first human to make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization after detecting a strong, patterned radio signal from outer space.

Though fictional, the movie may have been prophetic. For the last 15 years, scientists have been detecting strange radio bursts from deep space that appear mathematical in nature, reports New Scientist. The fact that they display a mathematical pattern is the linchpin: There are no known natural phenomenon capable of generating radio bursts with this kind of pattern.

So either these radio waves represent some yet undiscovered celestial event, or they are being produced by some kind of technology. In other words, if they do have a technological origin and they aren't being generated by us, that means they could be signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence. Yep, that's right: aliens.

Thursday, April 02, 2015

Alien Signal? Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts From Outside Galaxy

Alien Signal? Mysterious  Fast Radio Bursts From Outside Galaxy

By Rob Waugh
Metro.co.uk
4-1-15

    Radio dishes on Earth have picked up weird signals which show a pattern that doesn’t make much sense – unless they are from aliens.

‘If the pattern is real,’ University of Hawaii researcher John Learned says, ‘It is very, very hard to explain.’

Radio telescopes have detected Fast Radio Bursts since 2001 – incredibly short, high-energy pulses which last for a few milliseconds and erupt with the energy the sun releases in a day, New Scientist reports.

The truly strange part is that the signals show a repeating pattern of numbers which doesn’t match what we know about cosmic physics.

An FRB was captured ‘live’ in November 2014, by the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia. Previous signals had only been noticed by researchers weeks or months after they were detected. . . .