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A composite image of the Milky Way above the Australia Telescope Compact Array, which has been utilised in the study of fast radio bursts in recent years. A series of recent discoveries, including the detection of the first-ever repeating fast radio burst, has added new layers to the existing mystery of this elusive […] Illustration showing the central region of our galaxy as seen by NuSTAR (magenta circle). The smaller circle shows where the image was taken. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech It sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie, but a NASA space telescope has detected what might be the X-ray “screams” from dead (zombie) stars. The […] A schematic illustration of the Parkes radio telescope receiving the polarised signal from the distant fast radio burst FRB 140514, the first one to be discovered by astronomers in real-time. Image Credit: Swinburne Astronomy Productions Detective novels aside, astronomy and astrophysics could well be considered as the next best occupation for anyone who […] Artist’s impression of a fast radio burst appearing in the sky above the 64-m Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia. A handful of these elusive cosmic radio flashes, whose exact origin remains unknown, have been detected during the last decade. Image Credit: CSIRO/Harvard/Swinburne Astronomy Productions In 2007, David Narkevic, then a physics and political […] |
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