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Space news: Fast radio burst may have come from the Milky Way galaxy – 7NEWS.com.au
Astronomers are yet to determine what causes the mysterious bursts that up until now were only reported in faraway galaxies.
For the first time, astrophysicists have pieced together observational evidence of a fast radio burst that likely travelled to Earth from a particular type of neutron star in our Milky Way galaxy, according to three new studies.
Whats more, x-ray emissions accompanied the burst, which is also a first.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are bright, powerful emissions of radio waves ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few milliseconds.
Up until now, these kinds of bursts have been reported to occur…
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