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Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected
Yahoo News ^ | Jan 7th, 2009

Posted on 01/08/2009 10:05:14 AM PST by TaraP

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected. The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it. But the newly detected signal, described here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, is far louder than astronomers expected. There is "something new and interesting going on in the universe," said Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; pullmyfinger
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To: TaraP

If man evolved from apes, then why are still apes?


21 posted on 01/08/2009 10:12:19 AM PST by Raster Man
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To: TaraP
This is a really poorly written article. The observation is of electromagnetic radiation, not sound.

The superstitious should know that before jumping to conclusions.

22 posted on 01/08/2009 10:13:34 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: fish hawk; All

The universe really threw us a curve,” Kogut said. “Instead of the faint signal we hoped to find, here was this booming noise six times louder than anyone had predicted.”

Detailed analysis of the signal ruled out primordial stars or any known radio sources, including gas in the outermost halo of our own galaxy.

Other radio galaxies also can’t account for the noise – there just aren’t enough of them.

“You’d have to pack them into the universe like sardines,” said study team member Dale Fixsen of the University of Maryland. “There wouldn’t be any space left between one galaxy and the next.”

The signal is measured to be six times brighter than the combined emission of all known radio sources in the universe.

For now, the origin of the signal remains a mystery.

“We really don’t know what it is,”said team member Michael Seiffert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

And not only has it presented astronomers with a new puzzle, it is obscuring the sought-for signal from the earliest stars. But the cosmic static may itself provide important clues to the development of galaxies when the universe was much younger, less than half its present age. Because the radio waves come from far away, traveling at the speed of light, they therefore represent an earlier time in the universe.

“This is what makes science so exciting,” Seiffert said. “You start out on a path to measure something – in this case, the heat from the very first stars – but run into something else entirely, some unexplained.”
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090107-aas-loud-cosmic-noise.html


23 posted on 01/08/2009 10:13:54 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Seperation of Church and State)
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To: never4get

20 million populated worlds are cringing in horror..............


24 posted on 01/08/2009 10:14:09 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Raster Man
I think you meant to say, “If man evolved from apes, then why are WE still apes.” LOL
25 posted on 01/08/2009 10:15:05 AM PST by fish hawk (Atheism is a non-prophet organization)
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To: Moonman62

More articles about this..I posted on 23


26 posted on 01/08/2009 10:15:48 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Seperation of Church and State)
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To: TaraP

They’ve found Hell. Be afraid. Be very afraid!


27 posted on 01/08/2009 10:16:59 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: TaraP

Thanks for posting.


28 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:15 AM PST by unkus
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To: TaraP

Rut Ro.....12-21-2012


29 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:16 AM PST by BubbaJunebug
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To: TaraP

Just notice you tag line. Good one.


30 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:45 AM PST by fish hawk (Atheism is a non-prophet organization)
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To: TaraP

31 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:45 AM PST by meandog (A bird in this hand is worth the two (41 & 43) named Bush!)
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To: TaraP

Maybe it was Krypton exploding.


32 posted on 01/08/2009 10:17:48 AM PST by ditto h
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To: skeeter

Classic.

Check out this remastered trailer of the Doomsday Machine.

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34 posted on 01/08/2009 10:18:20 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (I is a dis in french fried voter.)
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To: The Bat Man

Luuuuuuuuuucy!!!


35 posted on 01/08/2009 10:19:08 AM PST by Revolting cat! (After all is said and done I'm goodier goodier than you!)
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To: Moonman62

My first thought was, what audio frequencies does it cover, and how does this “sound” travel through space.


36 posted on 01/08/2009 10:19:14 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: TaraP

Space is a vacuum. There is no ‘noise’. Are we talking about an electronic signature or high energy wave??


37 posted on 01/08/2009 10:19:44 AM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: Raster Man

“If man evolved from apes, then why are (there) still apes?”

Some apes had higher standards and didn’t wish to “descend”.

Scientists have proven that ape societies are more civilized than certain groups of humans. No self-respecting ape would live in the Middle East, for example.


38 posted on 01/08/2009 10:21:29 AM PST by ChicagahAl (So your bumper sticker says: "Don't blame me, I didn't vote!"? Duh!)
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To: Moonman62
The observation is of electromagnetic radiation, not sound.

True. We had a thread here just the other day about "frustrating things at the movies" or some such topic. One of the items was that science fiction movies tend to have noisy explosions in space, and cool "laser sounds" from starfighter combat scenes. It's articles like this one that perpetuate such notions.

39 posted on 01/08/2009 10:21:51 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Doc Savage

Good question.


40 posted on 01/08/2009 10:21:54 AM PST by unkus
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