Sentences with phrase «brightest fast radio burst»
The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia has picked up the brightest fast radio burst ever detected (Credit: ribeiroantonio / Depositphotos)
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The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia has picked up the brightest fast radio burst ever detected (Credit: < a href ="https://depositphotos.com/39535225/stock-photo-radio-telescope-dish-in-parkes.html" rel="nofollow"> ribeiroantonio / Depositphotos )
With a signal - to - noise ratio of 411, that event was the brightest fast radio burst detected so far by quite a wide margin.
The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia has picked up the brightest fast radio burst ever detected
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«Fast radio bursts» detected here on Earth last only a thousandth of a second, but are the result of a faraway source briefly shining a billion or more times brighter than our sun.
«Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence,» said theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.
It has been instrumental in tasks as diverse as monitoring near - Earth asteroids, watching for bright blasts of energy called fast radio bursts and searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.
These fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but unknown sources.
«Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence,» said Harvard professor Avi Loeb.
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are strange, extremely bright and mysterious signals from space.
An artist's impression shows three bright red flashes depicting fast radio bursts far beyond the Milky Way.