All of the same overall content is still being developed, but it's coming out
in faster bursts instead of one big patch.
Animated GIF mode takes photos
in fast bursts while holding down the camera button, then automatically sequencing the images into gifs.
Not exact matches
The battery lasts about four hours before it needs to be plugged
in to power, and the company promises speeds as
fast as 6 Mbps on average,
bursting up to 25 Mbps where available.
Exquisite but hard to get even at the farmer's market here
in NC because they are
bursting on the vine too
fast here this year.
Grating garlic on an Oxo or Microplane zester / grater delivers the same
burst of flavor as crushing garlic
in a press, but it's
faster and easier to clean up.
They are a solid bunch and nothing would
burst them onto the scenes
faster than
in their first Playoff run together to knock off the Back2Back Champs!
Welbeck and Theo both have a
faster «long» sprint than Alexis, Alexis is very
fast in bursts but hasn't shown he can outrun a player over distance, he always uses trickery.
It is all happening very
fast for the latest star to
burst out of the Arsenal academy, Alex Iwobi only having made his first team debut this season
in a Capital One Cup match.
My heart
bursts at the thought -
in pride at who she is and how much I love her, excitement to see her growing and becoming even more herself every single day, and
in sorrow at how
fast it's going.
Fast forward a few hours, strong dose of antibiotics, motrin, and a doctor getting called
in for a second opinion to review blood work, diagnosis, scans, I literally
burst out sobbing when he said he will let Emma spend Christmas at home with her family.
The
burst of blueberries makes this bar delicious on its own, crumbled on top of Greek yogurt or blended
in your daily fruit / veggie smoothie for a
fast, convenient, delicious milk - boosting...
The number of wave crests arriving from
Fast Radio
Bursts per second — their «frequency» — is
in the same range as that of radio signals.
Penn State University astronomers have discovered that the mysterious «cosmic whistles» known as
fast radio
bursts can pack a serious punch,
in some cases releasing a billion times more energy
in gamma - rays than they do
in radio waves and rivaling the stellar cataclysms known as supernovae
in their explosive power.
Fast radio
bursts, which astronomers refer to as FRBs, were first discovered
in 2007, and
in the years since radio astronomers have detected a few dozen of these events.
«With abundant observational information
in the future, we can gain a better understanding of the physical nature of
Fast Radio
Bursts,» said Peter Mészáros, Holder of the Eberly Family Chair
in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Professor of Physics at Penn State, the senior author of the research paper.
«If you have young magnetars that have just been born
in supernova explosions, only a few decades old, they could be very bursty objects, have very violent youths, and that could give rise to repeating
fast radio
bursts,» says astronomer Brian Metzger of Columbia University, who was not involved
in the new study.
Hessels thinks «the prospects are quite good» for figuring out what
fast radio
bursts are
in the near future.
Better still, a 100 - millisecond ink - jet
burst dissipates
fast, at least
in the team's small - scale experiment.
The violent activity triggers huge
bursts of star formation that can churn out new stars 100 times
faster than
in an undisturbed galaxy like our own Milky Way.
The origin of a
fast radio
burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur
in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off
bursts.
Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere protect us on the ground from most of the harmful effects of space weather, but astronauts
in low - Earth orbit — or even, one day,
in interplanetary space — are more exposed to space weather, including
bursts of
fast - moving particles called solar energetic particles, or SEPs.
SNATCHING SIGNALS Most of the
fast radio
bursts seen to date have been recorded by the Parkes Radio Telescope
in New South Wales, Australia.
This detection follows 11 previously recorded outbursts of radio waves from the same location, the only known repeater
in a class of enigmatic eruptions known as
fast radio
bursts.
Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a
fast radio
burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the
burst's origin, a longstanding goal
in studies of these mysterious events.
«The CHIME telescope
in Penticton, British Columbia, should be an excellent instrument for detecting
fast radio
bursts and studying their polarization properties,» says Shriharsh Tendulkar, postdoctoral researcher at the McGill Space Institute.
New detections of radio waves from a repeating
fast radio
burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field
in the source's environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.
«A repeating
fast radio
burst from an extreme environment: Extragalactic source of radio - wave flashes resides
in a powerfully magnetized astrophysical region.»
The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
in West Virginia show that the
fast radio
bursts from this object, called FRB 121102, are nearly 100 percent linearly polarized, an indication that the source of the
bursts is embedded
in strong magnetic fields like those around a massive black hole.
The Dutch and Breakthrough Listen teams suggest that the
fast radio
bursts may come from a highly magnetized rotating neutron star — a magnetar —
in the vicinity of a massive black hole that is still growing as gas and dust fall into it.
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.
To test their sound generator, they simulated the noise of a stream, a block being dropped into water,
fast - flowing water filling a bath, a dam
bursting and even a rubber duck being pushed around
in a bath.
«The search for nearby
fast radio
bursts offers an opportunity for citizen scientists to help astronomers find and study one of the newest species
in the galactic zoo,» says theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
That points to neutron stars — which form when short - lived massive stars
in stellar nurseries die — as the source of
fast radio
bursts.
A suite of Sun - gazing spacecraft, SOHO, STEREO and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), have spotted an unusual series of eruptions
in which a series of
fast «puffs» force the slow ejection of a massive
burst of plasma from the Sun's corona.
The ASKAP telescope
in Australia found new
fast radio
bursts in just three days — and it's not even fully operational yet.
For the first time, astronomers have pinpointed the location
in the sky of a
Fast Radio
Burst (FRB), allowing them to determine the distance and home galaxy of one of these mysterious pulses of radio waves.
Using the Green Bank Telescope
in West Virginia, scientists with the Breakthrough Listen initiative — a massive project dedicated to finding signs of intelligent alien life — recorded 15 repeating
fast radio
bursts (FRBs) on August 26.
Artist's impression of a
fast radio
burst appearing
in the sky above the 64 - m Parkes Radio Telescope
in Australia.
For the first time, astronomers have pinpointed the location
in the sky of a
Fast Radio
Burst, allowing them to determine the distance and home galaxy of one of these mysterious pulses of radio waves.
The team was able to measure the rotational speed of one of these objects, suggesting the asteroid spun so
fast it
burst, ejecting dust and newly discovered fragments
in a trail behind it.
Harvard researchers suggest that interstellar spacecraft
in faraway galaxies could be behind
fast radio
bursts.
Only a handful of these rapid, millisecond - duration events, known as «
fast radio
bursts» (FRBs), had been detected previously, all of them by a single instrument — the Parkes Observatory
in Australia.
Observing a
fast radio
burst in conjunction with neutrinos would be a coup, helping establish source objects for both types of phenomena.
«Astrophysical neutrinos and
fast radio
bursts are two of the most exciting mysteries
in physics today,» says Vandenbroucke.
The phenomena, known as
fast radio
bursts or FRBs, were first detected
in 2007 by astronomers scouring archival data from Australia's Parkes Telescope, a 64 - meter diameter dish best known for its role receiving live televison images from the Apollo 11 moon landing
in 1969.
«It looks like the
fast radio
burst came out to play today,» Casey Law, the researcher monitoring the VLA
in real time, wrote
in an email to the rest of the team.
It has been suggested that gamma rays coming from the dense region of space
in the inner Milky Way galaxy could be caused when invisible dark matter particles collide, but two new studies suggest that the gamma ray
bursts are due to other astrophysical phenomena such as
fast - rotating stars called millisecond pulsars.
In recent radio surveys at Parkes astronomers looking for new pulsars also found a new type of pulsed object since called
Fast Radio
Bursts (FRBs).
The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory
in Australia has picked up the brightest
fast radio
burst ever detected