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Offline TomSea

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Mysterious radio signals from deep space detected
« on: Thursday, Jan 10, 2019 07:29 am »
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Mysterious radio signals from deep space detected
By Helen Briggs BBC News      9 January 2019

Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada.

The precise nature and origin of the blasts of radio waves is unknown.

Among the 13 fast radio bursts, known as FRBs, was a very unusual repeating signal, coming from the same source about 1.5 billion light years away.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46811618

Actually big news, if not posted in this forum, maybe it was elsewhere.
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Re: Mysterious radio signals from deep space detected
« Reply #1 on: Thursday, Jan 10, 2019 07:39 am »
Is this something new? I recall as a child learning about signals from space received at the Green Bank observatory in southern West Virginia.
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