Space burpers

[alokmohan]

Washington - A strange and powerful burst of radio waves from near the centre of our galaxy may have come from a previously unknown type of space object, United States astronomers reported on Wednesday.<br /><br />Other experts nicknamed the mysterious source a "burper" and said there would be a race to scan for similar radio bursts.<br /><br />"We hit the jackpot," said Scott Hyman, a professor of physics at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, who led the study.<br /><br />"An image of the Galactic centre, made by collecting radio waves of about one metre in wavelength, revealed multiple bursts from the source during a seven-hour period from September 30 to October 1, 2002 - five bursts in fact, and repeating at remarkably constant intervals."<br /><br />The burst came from the direction of the middle of the Milky Way galaxy, of which Earth is a part, and could have originated from as far away as 24 000 light-years or from as close as 300 light-years. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, or about 10 trillion kilometres.<br /><br />It cannot have come from a celestial object known as a pulsar, the researchers write in this week's issue of the journal Nature, but the source could be a brown dwarf of a magnetar - an exotic star with an extremely powerful magnetic field.<br /><br />They have named the presumed object GCRT J1745-3009.<br /><br />"GCRT J1745-3009 will cause a stampede of further observations," Shri Kulkarni and Sterl Phinney of the California Institute of Technology wrote in a commentary.<br /><br />"But perhaps even more important is the possibility that the radio heavens contain other fast radio transients (which, in anticipation of a trove of discoveries, we nickname 'burpers')."<br /><br />Hyman and colleagues made the discovery by studying observations made by the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope in New <br /> Homeloans <br />Medical Ai<br />Residential Property <br />Vehicle and Asset Finance <br />Work @ Home <br /> <br /> <br></br>

 

[vogon13]

Might be 'propwash' form some FTL experiments the ET's are trying.<br /><br /><br /><br />Seriously, (well mostly seriously) probably should keep in mind astro-engineering concepts when examining some of these more esoteric phenomena. If we ever note something that might be construed as evidence of extraterretrials it would be quite an interesting experience to post about here at SDC. And fun to watch the mods shuffle threads back and forth from the SETI forum to here.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>