{"id":2315,"date":"2014-07-12T17:27:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T22:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2014-07-12T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T22:27:17","slug":"high-energy-radio-burst-comes-from-outside-of-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/high-energy-radio-burst-comes-from-outside-of-our-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"High-energy radio-burst comes from outside of our galaxy<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2310\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/arecibo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2310\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2310\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/arecibo-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"The Arecibo Observatory. (Photo credit: NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF)\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/arecibo-300x245.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/arecibo-1024x837.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/arecibo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Arecibo Observatory. (Photo credit: NAIC &#8211; Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A team of scientists observed a \u2018fast radio burst\u2019 using the Puerto Rican Aceribo radio telescope coming from outside our galaxy, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This confirms previous observations from the Parkes radio telescope in Australia and discard the hypothesis that these would have originated near Earth. These high-energy radio bursts last only a few milliseconds and their origins are still unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/0004-637X\/790\/2\/101\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0The Astrophysical Journal<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>July 10, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Victoria Kaspi, McGill University, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists observed a \u2018fast radio burst\u2019 using the Puerto Rican Aceribo radio telescope coming from outside our galaxy, a new study shows. This confirms previous observations from the Parkes radio telescope in Australia and discard the hypothesis that these would have originated near Earth. These high-energy radio bursts last only a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1903,533,1901,1902],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-galaxy","tag-space","tag-telescope","tag-universe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/arecibo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Bl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}