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Canadian astronomers have detected an intense radio burst within the Milky Way. – The Washington Newsday
Astronomers in Canada have discovered an unusually intense, fast radio burst inside the Milky Way. Observations, described in detail in the journal Nature on Wednesday,…
Astronomers in Canada have discovered an unusually intense, fast radio burst inside the Milky Way.
Observations, described in detail in the journal Nature on Wednesday, suggest that a considerable number of FRBs are generated by magnetars, a type of neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field.
The fast radio pulse was first identified in April 2020 by a team of astronomers in the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment.
The CHIME telescope was designed to study a variety of radio…
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