Something in there is producing an unusually regular radio signal (Image: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA)
Posted on 04/14/2010 2:55:48 PM PDT by TaraP
There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.
"We don't know what it is," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK.
The thing appeared in May last year, while Muxlow and his colleagues were monitoring an unrelated stellar explosion in M82 using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. A bright spot of radio emission emerged over only a few days, quite rapidly in astronomical terms. Since then it has done very little except baffle astrophysicists.
It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.
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Something in there is producing an unusually regular radio signal (Image: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA)
If they come with a cookbook, dont say I didnt warn everyone.
LOL, beat me to it.
“BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE”
A crummy commercial?
Mother Ship trying to signal Pelosi.
Its obviously not aliens. This is some natural thing they have never seen.
Message...Top Priority: Barrack, Nancy and Harry meet at designated exit point on April 15th. The mission has been accomplished. Welcome home comrades!
PS: No room for the bow legged one. Maybe next time. Zulu out.
It’s a FAX of Zero’s long form birth certificate!
Of course it if’s right-wing talk radio, the government will immediately send a probe to shut it down.
Air America found a home?
“To prevent war, the galaxy is on Orion’s belt.”
Send me any requests, earthlings.
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