Posted on 01/26/2022 11:39:29 AM PST by algore
mysterious object that is just 4,000 light years away from Earth is unlike anything ever seen before in space, astronomers have said.
They think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf – collapsed cores of stars – with an ultra-powerful magnetic field, also known as a magnetar.
As it spins through the cosmos, the 'spooky' object sends out a beam of radiation, and for one minute in every 20 it is one of the brightest objects in the night sky.
Observations show it releasing a giant burst of energy three times an hour.
Astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the Curtin University, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Australia, led the team that made the discovery.
Her team was mapping radio waves in the universe when they came across the potential 'magnetar'.
She said: 'This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations.
'That was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there's nothing known in the sky that does that.
Dr Hurley-Walker added that the observations match a predicted astrophysical object called an 'ultra-long period magnetar'
Her team was mapping radio waves in the universe when they came across the potential 'magnetar'.
She said: 'This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations.
'That was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there's nothing known in the sky that does that.
'And it's really quite close to us — about 4,000 light years away. It's in our galactic backyard.'
Dr Hurley-Walker added that the observations match a predicted astrophysical object called an 'ultra-long period magnetar'.
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Oh wait, maybe that is a Sinistar not a Magnetar
But it's still aliens
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
It’s a light house. Used for celestial navigation. Duh.
NIMBY
If I have the story right we should have died from this thing 4,000 years ago-—speed of light thing and all that?
If you are ham radio operator, maybe it’s just really fast CW, maybe if we recorded it and slowed the sound down maybe someone could make sense of it.
Or
Perhaps it’s nothing, who knows.
That burst of light was a Chinese rocket exploding in flight.
Damn Thermians are at it again.
clearly anthropogenic climate change.
A neutron star just farted.
I stand by my comment.
Or someone noticed us like squirrels in the attic and called the galactic exterminator service.
I read a story once where the aliens were shocked we had made up all these complicated theories to explain how things like pulsars were naturally occuring when they were obviously artificial beacons letting everyone know they weren’t alone.
Freegards
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Cosmic warming.
“Just” 4,000 light years away?
OMG! Only 4, 000 light years away!?
I’m never going to sleep again. I am filled with worry!
1 minute = 60 seconds
1 hour = 3,600 seconds
1 day = 86,400 seconds
1 year = 31,536,000 seconds (for simplicity, 365 days)
4000 years = 126,144,000,000 seconds
Speed of light = 186,000 miles per second
That’s only 23,462,784,000,000,000 miles away!
Each burst is:
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