Posted on 01/27/2022 10:09:15 PM PST by 11th_VA
Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have found a mysterious object in space that has been sending out radio waves approximately three times an hour, according to an institutional press release. The object was first spotted in March 2018 and has been observed ever since to understand its origins.
Celestial objects that send out pulsing waves are quite a regular observation for an astronomer. Called transients, these objects either take months to disappear or can quickly flash off in a matter of seconds or even milliseconds, Dr. Gemma Anderson, an astrophysicist at ICRAR said in the press release. In the case of this object though, the repeating sequence of pulses is a bit strange.
The observation was made using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) set up in Western Australia that consists of 4,096 small spider-like low-frequency antennas arranged in 256 grids. This gives the radio telescope a very wide field of view and frequency range, its website states. The MWA is the precursor to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) that is being built through international collaboration and will be the world's largest radio telescope.
The object spotted by the researchers is incredibly bright but smaller than our Sun. The highly polarised signals received from it suggest that it has a strong magnetic field around it. Dr. Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astrophysicist at Curtin University who led the discovery, said that the object could be a magnetar - a slowly spinning neutron star that has only had theoretical existence so far. Her team is now monitoring the object to see if it turns back on again.
The object has been dubbed GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3 and is located about 4000 light-years away from the Earth,…
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Or an alien Rush Limbaugh broadcasting against liberals on his planet... 🤓
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So long and thanks for all the fish!
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“Will Australia let us back in?”
There used to be an intelligent, space faring world in the vicinity, but they did not hide their existence, which announced they were competing for resources.
The first species to reach the vicinity launched a casual attack from some light years distant, then fled back into hiding.
We are just now seeing the light from the attack as the objects are being transformed from 3-4 dimensional matter into 2-dimensional existence.
They are no longer competing for anything. Sooner or later the hidden ones will see us and launch a casual attack for which there is no defense.
Well, when it/they get here don’t forget your Slim Whitman records.
Musk’s Tesla.......The red one
Actually, it is : di di dit-da da da-di di dit.
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However shouldn't it be 'expiring new SPACESHIP warranty'? 🤓
Every 18 minutes - have they checked to see if it’s the long version of “Alice’s Restaurant”?
It came from Planet Claire...
“Phone home”
VGER
It’s a cookbook!😳
Good, let's start taxing it to pay for global warming, climate change, and infrastructure.
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