Students at West Virginia University have looked to the skies and discovered six pulsars.
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WVU astronomer helps explain mysteries of 'Fast Radio Burst' discovered with the Green Bank Telescope
Sarah McLaughlin |
A team of astronomers, including a West Virginia University professor, has uncovered the most detailed record ever of a Fast Radio Burst, or FRB, brief yet brilliant eruptions of cosmic radio waves that have baffled astronomers since they were first reported nearly a decade ago. The results of their research are published in the journal Nature.
Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space
Sarah McLaughlin |
Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message?