FAST RADIO BURSTS

In the last decade, we have established the existence of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) of sub-millisecond durations, likely originating at cosmologically significant distances. Explaining the FRB phenomenon has proved a compelling challenge to theory, with the number of distinct models only this year being superseded by the 65 reported events. The high FRB occurrence rate (comparable to the core-collapse supernova rate), isotropic-equivalent luminosities comparable to the most luminous quasars, the wide range of intrinsic and propagation-induced phenomenology, and the repetition of at least a sub-sample of objects are particularly noteworthy. FRBs have also opened a powerful new window into otherwise unseen matter in the Universe. Observations of large FRB samples will help assess the baryon contents and physical conditions in the hot/diffuse circumgalactic, intracluster, and intergalactic medium, and test extant compact-object dark matter models. I will review the state of the field and its promise for the future.

Get one month free of Dashlane Premium by going to https://www.dashlane.com/answerswithjoe Fast Radio Bursts are exactly what they sound like. They're highly energetic bursts of radio waves that last mere milliseconds. And they're totally random. Because of how elusive they are, scientists are still trying to explain this weird phenomena. But thanks to new telescopes like CHIME in Canada, we're getting closer to the solution to this science mystery. Help grow this channel on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe Get cool nerdy t-shirts at http://www.answerswithjoe.com/shirts Interested in getting a Tesla? Use my referral link and get discounts and perks: https://ts.la/joe74700 Become a channel member and get access to exclusive livestreams and content here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2YHgc363EdcusLIBbgxzg/join Follow me at all my places! Instagram: https://instagram.com/answerswithjoe Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/answerswithjoe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/answerswithjoe Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/answerswithjoe FRBs are random and hard to catch, and theories for what causes them have literally outnumbered the number of FRBs found at one point. Explanations for FRBs include colliding neutron stars or colliding black holes, burping magnetars, neutron stars being jostled by nearby black holes, supernovas, and, of course, aliens. LINKS LINKS LINKS: Crash Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrMvUL8HFlM&t=677s SciShow Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhX4zszNwew SciShow Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmhrDQv2ZLw Seeker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4B0wj4K4Rw Perimeter Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaqUl3I3y_Q https://www.quantamagazine.org/astronomers-now-think-they-can-explain-fast-radio-bursts-20190228/

233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA Wednesday, 9 January 2019, 10:15 am PST Welcome Kerrin Hensley (AAS Media Fellow) Early Science Results on Fast Radio Bursts from CHIME Vicky Kaspi (McGill Univ.) & Deborah Good (Univ. of British Columbia) A Study of Radio Pulses from the Galactic Center Magnetar Aaron Pearlman (Caltech) Mapping the Contracting Corona in a New Black Hole Transient with NICER Erin Kara (Univ. of Maryland) Q&A

Newly-discovered repeating waves from deep space have led some experts to question whether aliens are out there. SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://www.youtube.com/ABCNews/ Watch More on http://abcnews.go.com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc GOOD MORNING AMERICA'S HOMEPAGE: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/

Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs are blasts of radio energy that hit Earth from outside the milky way galaxy, lasting only milliseconds before they disappear. Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard University and Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discusses the possibility that they could be leakage from highly powerful lasers pushing on light sails or other signs of advanced extraterrestrial intelligence. As well as the interstellar object known as Oumuamua and if it is a solar sail or alien probe. Avi Loeb also discusses what are the most dangerous and immediate threats to life on earth from space, asteroid collisions, solar flares including the carrington event, and black holes. "COULD SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE EXPLAIN ‘OUMUAMUA’S PECULIAR ACCELERATION?", Bialy and Loeb, 2018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11490.pdf 7 explanations for why mysterious radio bursts are coming from space: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2183047-7-explanations-for-why-mysterious-radio-bursts-are-coming-from-space/ Is 'Oumuamua a Light Sail? Featuring Dr. Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/VlpVIyBCG3s Why The Universe May Be Full Of Alien Civilizations Featuring Dr. Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/6ckgBxRASTo Website: https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/ You can now support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/jmgeventhorizon Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/jmgeventhorizon/

An exploration of ten of the most unsettling astrophysical events including Dyson Sphere candidates, a star containing plutonium, the Wow! Signal and others. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier https://www.youtube.com/eventhorizonshow Papers: "Pulsar Positioning System: A quest for evidence of extraterrestrial engineering", Clement Vidal, 2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03316 "Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails", Lingham and Loeb, 2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01109 "Discovery of peculiar periodic spectral modulations in a small fraction of solar type stars", Borra and Trottier, 2016 https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03031 Music: Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ "Night Forever" by Miguel Johnson https://migueljohnson.bandcamp.com/ Cylinder Three by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

We talk to SKA Project Scientist Evan Keane about the significance of the discovery of 20 new Fast Radio Bursts - doubling the known number of these mysterious objects - by ASKAP, one of the SKA precursor telescopes in Australia. To find out more, visit http://www.skatelescope.org/news/askap-fast-radio-bursts-discovery/

Scientists using a Western Australian radio telescope say they’ve significantly increased their detections of fast radio bursts.

Researchers used machine learning to discover 72 new fast radio bursts from a mysterious source 3 billion light years from Earth. Geek.com reports that in radio astronomy, fast radio bursts are high-energy astrophysical phenomenon of unknown origin; the bright pulses of radio emission last mere milliseconds and are thought to originate from distant galaxies. Their source, however, remains unclear. But Breakthrough Listen, a SETI project led by the University of California, Berkeley, hopes AI can help clarify. according to Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center and principal investigator of Breakthrough Listen, “This work is exciting not just because it helps us understand the dynamic behavior of fast radio bursts in more detail, but also because of the promise it shows for using machine learning to detect signals missed by classical algorithms." https://www.geek.com/tech/ai-detects-more-mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts-1751925/?source http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

Machine learning algorithms applied to Listen data from the Green Bank Telescope found new pulses from the mysterious repeating source FRB 121102. These new bursts were missed by conventional search methods, and are helping to answer questions about the origin of FRB 121102. Machine learning algorithms are also being applied to help Listen search for new kinds of candidate signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. For more information, see http://seti.berkeley.edu/frb-machine/ Follow Berkeley SETI: http://facebook.com/BerkeleySETI http://twitter.com/BerkeleySETI http://instagram.com/BerkeleySETI http://youtube.com/BerkeleySETI

There’s a weird thing happening in the universe, and astronomers call it a fast radio burst. Learn about these high energy mysteries and what might cause them. Astronomy magazine is the world’s best-selling astronomy magazine, offering you the most exciting visually stunning thorough, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky-event coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and more. Astronomy.com features daily news and weekly observing tips, as well as our Picture of the Day. We also invite you to check out our blogs, podcasts, and more. All of this comes in an easy-to-understand user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level. Like Astronomy magazine on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/AstronomyMagazine Follow Astronomy magazine on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/AstronomyMag View Astronomy magazine's Picture of the Day on PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/astronomymag/astronomy-picture-of-the-day/

Fast Radio Bursts Vicky Kaspi CIFAR Fellow, Cosmology & Gravity program; McGill University, Department of Physics & McGill Space Institute This lecture was part of the "Untangling the Cosmos" symposium hosted by CIFAR in partnership with the Ontario Science Centre on May 17, 2017.

Learn about the new mysterious cosmic phenomenon—Fast Radio Bursts—and the revolutionary new radio telescope that will soon enable astronomers worldwide to make major progress in understanding them. This lecture was presented by the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics.

Neutron stars are some of the strangest things in the universe, but are they the source of the mysterious Fast Radio Bursts? Or is it aliens? Spoilers: probably not aliens. For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Jerry Perez, Lazarus G, Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2014/02/aa21996-13/aa21996-13.html http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/311674 https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/possible-explanation-for-radio-bursts-meet-the-blitzar/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/neutrinos-give-neutron-stars-a-chill/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/are-fast-radio-bursts-alien-spacecraft-its-unlikely-possible-180962493/ https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_blackholes_blackholes.html https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/pulsars1.html.old https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1081 http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/N/Neutron+Star http://science.sciencemag.org/content/311/5769/1901 https://www.space.com/32661-pulsars.html https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-are-neutron-stars-magnetic-16273b350b10 http://www.astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s12.htm https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200602/history.cfm http://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6141/53 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomers-are-getting-closer-understanding-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-space-180967807/ https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/science/what-are-fast-radio-bursts https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/world/repeating-fast-radio-burst-frb121102/index.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-brilliant-flash-then-nothing-new-fast-radio-bursts-mystify-astronomers/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630153-600-is-this-et-mystery-of-strange-radio-bursts-from-space/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-are-fast-radio-bursts/ ----------- Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20267 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12605 https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1614a/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-continues-to-study-pulsars-50-years-after-their-chance-discovery

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration pulses of unknown origin that were discovered by astronomers in 2007. A decade later, with only two dozen bursts known, Fast Radio Bursts remain enigmatic sources which parallel the early days of gamma-ray burst astronomy in the 1970s. Professor Lorimer tells the story of Fast Radio Bursts’ discovery, summarize what we know so far, describe the science opportunities these bursts present, and make predictions for what we will learn in the next decade.

Check out: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before https://youtu.be/Edx7TZZVi5I Scientists have taken a closer look at the source of those mysterious fast radio bursts you’ve heard about, and they have some new theories. An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Past Earth, Here’s What You Need to Know - https://youtu.be/2tA3w-aiNt8 Read More: Astronomers Find a Spectacular Source For Those Mysterious Repeating Space Signals http://www.sciencealert.com/frb-121102-fast-radio-burst-massive-black-hole-nebula-icrar “Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of our Universe's most confounding mysteries - but astronomers may have just figured out the incredible environment where one of the most famous and well-studied FRBs is coming from.” Not So Fast: Mystery Radio Bursts Far From Solved https://www.seeker.com/not-so-fast-mystery-radio-bursts-far-from-solved-1770977246.html “Evan Keane, a project scientist at the Square Kilometer Array Organization, and colleagues authored the original paper that claims to narrow down the source location of an FRB by tracing what they interpreted as the afterglow of whatever caused the FRB. But another group, led by Peter Williams, a postdoctoral astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, claims it could just be the belches of a monster black hole.” Mystery Fast Radio Burst Caused By Flashing Black Hole https://www.seeker.com/mystery-fast-radio-burst-caused-by-flashing-black-hole-1771172809.html “These energetic eruptions seem to pop up in random locations in the cosmos and they appear and disappear in a matter of milliseconds, making them exceedingly hard to pinpoint. Until February, only a handful of definitive FRB signals had been uncovered in archival radio data.” ____________________ Seeker inspires us to see the world through the lens of science and evokes a sense of curiosity, optimism and adventure. Visit the Seeker website https://www.seeker.com/videos Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel Seeker on Twitter http://twitter.com/seeker Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez Seeker on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SeekerMedia/ Seeker http://www.seeker.com/ Special thanks to Julian Huguet for writing this episode of Seeker! Check Julian out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jhug00 This episode of Seeker was hosted by Trace Dominguez

Stream on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). SpaceTime 20180117 Series 21 Episode 04: *New clues about mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Astronomers have discovered new clues about mysterious cosmic blasts called Fast Radio Bursts – finding they originate from an environment bathed in extreme magnetic fields. While the new findings don’t shed any fresh light on what causes them – the research has provided some new insights to the deep space environment in which they occur. *Underground Martian water ice deposits exposed New images have revealed eight sites on Mars where thick subsurface deposits of water ice have been exposed on the cliff faces of eroding slopes. As well as holding clues about the red planet’s climate history – the findings also show how frozen water may be far more accessible for future missions to Mars than previously thought. *The universe has far more massive stars than expected Astronomers have discovered an excess of massive stars being formed in a giant stellar nursery in our neighbouring galaxy -- the Large Magellanic cloud. The findings are based on observations of 30 Doradus -- the Tarantula nebula –the biggest star-forming region in our part of the universe and host to some of the most massive stars ever found. *Tabby’s star just dusty New research has supported earlier studies indicating strange uneven and sporadic variations in the light coming from a distant star is most likely just dust. For the last few years astronomers and the general public have been captivated by the mysterious changes in brightness coming from the star now commonly referred to as Tabby’s Star. *The Science Report New figures confirm 2017 was Australia’s third hottest year on record. A new study warns ibuprofen pain killers can affect male fertility. The probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri has the potential to provide an effective treatment for colic. Scientists have finally proved something women have always known – baby brain is real. Alex on Tech covers CES -- the world’s largest Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotes Subscribe, rate and review SpaceTime at all good podcasting apps…including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), audioBoom, Stitcher, PocketCasts, Podbean, Radio Public, Tunein Radio, google play, Spreaker etc RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/4642443.rss Would you prefer to have access to the special commercial free version of SpaceTime? Help support the show, subscribe at Patreon....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary Help support SpaceTime : The SpaceTime with Stuart Gary merchandise shop. Get your T-Shirts, Coffee Cups, badges, tote bag + more and help support the show. Check out the range: http://www.cafepress.com/spacetime Thank you. Plus: As a part of the SpaceTime family, you can get a free audio book of your choice, plus 30 days free access from audible.com. Just visit www.audibletrial.com/spacetime or click on the banner link at www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com Email: [email protected] Join our mailing list at http://www.bitesz.com/join-our-mailing-list For more, follow SpaceTime on Facebook, twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram, Google+, Patreon and Spreaker: Facebook: @spacetimewithstuartgary twitter: @stuartgary Tumblr: http://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacetimewithstuartgary/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/2/collection/cabtNB YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhpBkuHSLfIRnliLB12HoC1QE0rwr8qRS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/spacetime-with-stuart-gary-2017 If you're enjoying SpaceTime, please help out by sharing and telling your friends. The best recommendation I can get is one from you. Thank you…

Join +Fraser Cain and +Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! You know what's fun? Mysteries. Here's one: fast radio bursts. Astronomers have been detecting mysterious one-time signals from across the sky. What's causing them? Nobody knows for sure, but the search is on to get to the bottom of them.

An update video on the Fast Radio Burst 121102 and an exploration of what that might mean for SETI. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "An extreme magneto-ionic associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 121102", D. Michilli et al, 2017 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25149.epdf Music: Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

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It started in 2001, a brilliant burst of light breached the skies. The event had released as much power as 500 million suns. Just a few milliseconds later, the signal had vanished. Astronomers call these powerful flashes Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Since 2001, about 30 have been identified. But, new estimates suggest one is happening almost every second. According to Dr. Avi Loeb, professor of science at Harvard University, "In the time it takes you to drink a cup of coffee, hundreds of FRBs may have gone off somewhere in the universe." The origins of FRBs continue to elude explanation. But there's one source unlike any other that may hold the key to solving the mystery. It's called FRB 121102. It's the only known FRB that repeats. Astronomers have observed over 150 flashes from FRB 121102. Its repeated signals suggest FRBs aren't from a single explosion. Rather, they could be from an unusual object called a magnetar. Magnetars are highly-dense stars with powerful magnetic fields. Whatever the reason, FRBs are proof there's still so much more to learn about our universe. Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's, gaming, science, digital culture, and more. Subscribe to our channel and visit us at: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai TI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech_insider/ TI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/techinsider

In recent years, scientists have discovered fast radio bursts, energetic single pulses of radio emission arriving in random directions from unknown sources well beyond our galaxy, the Milky Way. The origin of these pulses is a major puzzle in high energy astrophysics. With its huge field of view and broad frequency coverage, the CHIME telescope is a nearly ideal instrument for finding and studying many of these bursts, enabling scientists to tackle one of the most mysterious new areas of astrophysics.

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Astronomers last month reported detections of radio bursts from a far away galaxy. Writing in the Astronomer's Telegram, scientists reported 15 fast radio bursts detected from a dwarf galaxy some 3 billion light years from our own. Scientists suggest the bursts may have come from a magnetar, which is a rotating neutron star with a strong magnetic field. Researchers also speculate that the bursts may originate from alien laser technology used to propel and power spacecraft, like wind powers sails on a ship, according to a University of California, Berkeley news release. That theory is similar to Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative aimed at propelling nanocraft to Proxima Centauri with Earth-based lasers. Whatever they came from, researchers say that those signals began travelling from their galaxy over 10 billion years ago, when ours wasn't even 2 billion years old. ----------------------------------------­--------------------- Go to https://www.patreon.com/tomonews and become a Patron now TomoNews is now on Patreon and we've got some cool perks for our hardcore fans. TomoNews is your best source for real news. We cover the funniest, craziest and most talked-about stories on the internet. Our tone is irreverent and unapologetic. If you’re laughing, we’re laughing. If you’re outraged, we’re outraged. We tell it like it is. And because we can animate stories, TomoNews brings you news like you’ve never seen before. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter See a story that should be animated? Tell us about it! Suggest a story here: http://bit.ly/suggest-tomonews Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus

An update on repeating fast radio burst 121102 which is currently active and could have implications on both SETI and deciphering just what causes FRBs. www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers and links: Breakthrough Listen https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/News/13 "A Fast Radio Burst Occurs Every Second throughout the Observable Universe", Fialkov and Loeb, 2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06582 Music: Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

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The 11th talk of TeVPA 2017. I review our present observational understanding of the mysterious new phenomenon of Fast Radio Bursts -- short (few ms) bursts of radio waves arriving from apparently cosmological distances -- as well as models for what these sources may be. I also describe the CHIME telescope, currently being built in Canada, and how it will impact this interesting puzzle.

FRBs last just a few milliseconds, and astronomers have detected less than a couple dozen of them without our current telescopes. Where do scientists think they come from? Thumbnail Credit: CSIRO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_4350_CSIROs_Parkes_Radio_Telescope_with_moon_in_the_background.jpg Get your DFTBA - Solar Eclipse Pinhole Viewer Postcard: https://store.dftba.com/products/solar-eclipse-pinhole-viewer-postcard Hosted by: Reid Reimers ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ----------Alexander Wadsworth, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a25609/fast-radio-bursts-alien-space-travel/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-are-fast-radio-bursts/ https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2017-09 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.01109.pdf http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pulsar/frbcat/ https://astrobites.org/2016/12/20/a-counterpart-for-fast-radio-bursts/ https://astrobites.org/2013/07/29/do-fast-radio-bursts-come-from-neutron-star-mergers/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2124209-could-fast-radio-bursts-really-be-powering-alien-space-ships/ http://www.nature.com/news/why-ultra-powerful-radio-bursts-are-the-most-perplexing-mystery-in-astronomy-1.20175 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.1409.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04542.pdf http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/02/24/fast_radio_bursts_finally_identified_as_being_very_far_away.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07746.pdf Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neutron_star_illustrated.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Holes_-_Monsters_in_Space.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHIME_Pathfinder.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHIME_experiment_construction_-_2015-07-16.jpg

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Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration pulses of unknown origin that were discovered by pulsar astronomers in 2007. A decade on from the discovery, with only 20 further bursts currently known, fast radio bursts remain enigmatic sources which parallel the early days of gamma-ray burst astronomy in the early 1970s. I will tell the story of their discovery, summarize what we know about them so far, describe the science opportunities these bursts present, and make predictions for what we will learn in the next decade. Host: Peter Williams Speaker: Duncan Lorimer

Here's a big mystery in astronomy: fast radio bursts. Brief shrieks of radio waves coming from space. What are they? Where do they come from? Astronomers have no idea. Sponsored by the .space domain name. Go to http://www.launch.space and use the code "GUIDETOSPACE" to get a domain for $2.99. Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii Chad Weber - [email protected] You might think you’re watching an educational channel, where I explain fascinating concepts in space and astronomy, but that’s not really what’s going on here. What’s actually happening is that you’re tagging along as I learn more and more about new and cool things happening in the Universe. I dig into them like a badger hiding a cow carcass, and we all get to enjoy the cache of knowledge I uncover. Okay, that analogy got a little weird. Anyway, my point is. Squirrel! Fast radio bursts are the new cosmic whatzits confusing and baffling astronomers, and now we get to take a front seat and watch them move through all stages of process of discovery. Stage 1: A strange new anomaly is discovered that doesn’t fit any current model of the cosmos. For example, strange Boyajian’s Star. You know, that star that probably doesn’t have an alien megastructure orbiting around it, but astronomers can’t rule that out just yet? Stage 2: Astronomers struggle to find other examples of this thing. They pitch ideas for new missions and scientific instruments. No idea is too crazy, until it’s proven to be too crazy. Examples include dark matter, dark energy, and that idea that we’re living in a Stage 3: Astronomers develop a model for the thing, find evidence that matches their predictions, and vast majority of the astronomical community comes to a consensus on what this thing is. Like quasars and gamma ray bursts. YouTuber’s make their videos. Textbooks are updated. Balance is restored. Today we’re going to talk about Fast Radio Bursts. They just moved from Stage 1 to Stage 2. Let’s dig in. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, or “Furbys” were first detected in 2007 by the astronomer Duncan Lorimer from West Virginia University. He was looking through an archive of pulsar observations. Pulsars, of course, are newly formed neutron stars, the remnants left over from supernova explosions. They spin rapidly, blasting out twin beams of radiation. Some can spin hundreds of times a second, so precisely you could set your watch to them. In this data, Lorimer made a “that’s funny” observation, when he noticed one blast of radio waves that squealed for 5 milliseconds and then it was gone. It didn’t match any other observation or prediction of what should be out there, so astronomers set out to find more of them. Over the last 10 years, astronomers have found about 25 more examples of Fast Radio Bursts. Each one only lasts a few milliseconds, and then fades away forever. A one time event that can appear anywhere in the sky and only last for a couple milliseconds and never repeats is not an astronomer’s favorite target of study. Actually, one FRB has been found to repeat, maybe. The question, of course, is “what are they?”. And the answer, right now is, “astronomers have no idea.” In fact, until very recently, astronomers weren’t ever certain they were coming from space at all. We’re surrounded by radio signals all the time, so a terrestrial source of fast radio bursts seems totally logical. About a week ago, astronomers from Australia announced that FRBs are definitely coming from outside the Earth. They used the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (or MOST) in Canberra to gather data on a large patch of sky. Then they sifted through 1,000 terabytes of data and found just 3 fast radio bursts. Three. Since MOST is farsighted and can’t perceive any radio signals closer than 10,000 km away, the signals had to be coming outside planet Earth. They were “extraterrestrial” in origin. Right now, fast radio bursts are infuriating to astronomers. They don’t seem to match up with any other events we can see. They’re not the afterglow of a supernova, or tied in some way to gamma ray bursts. In order to really figure out what’s going on, astronomers need new tools, and there’s a perfect instrument coming. Astronomers are building a new telescope called the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (or CHIME), which is under construction near the town of Penticton in my own British Columbia.

Stream Episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com or www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com (both mobile friendly) *Three new Fast Radio Bursts discovered Astronomers have used one of Australia’s almost forgotten radio telescopes to discover three new Fast Radio Bursts -- mysterious nanosecond long flashes of energy which have so far defied any explanation. The team made the discovery using the old Molonglo radio telescope 40 kilometres from Canberra. Astronomers identify purest, most massive brown dwarf Astronomers have discovered the most massive brown dwarf ever seen. The record breaking object, known as SDSS J0104+1535 has the purest composition of any brown dwarf ever observed. Event Horizon telescope deployed to study black holes Astronomers have deployed a powerful array of telescopes to undertake the first ever detailed image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The Event Horizon Telescope is an international joint effort to link some of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes to examine Sagittarius A Star -- a supermassive black hole some 4.3 million times the mass of our Sun – located some 27 thousand light years away – in the galactic centre. New Horizons already halfway from Pluto to its next target Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft is now halfway from its close encounter with Pluto to its flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. The probe will encounter the distant world on January 1st 2019. Biggest wave ever recorded The World Meteorological Organization have announced confirmation of the biggest wave ever detected – measuring some 19 metres or 62.3 feet tall as tall as a six story building. The record breaking wave formed in the North Atlantic Ocean between the United Kingdom and Iceland. For Enhanced Show Notes, including photos to accompany this episode: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetime-show-notes Subscribe, rate and review SpaceTime at all good podcasting apps…including iTunes, audioBoom, Stitcher, Pocketcasts, Podbean, Radio Public, Tunein Radio, google play, etc. RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/4642443.rss Help support SpaceTime : The SpaceTime with Stuart Gary merchandise shop. Get your T-Shirts, Coffee Cups, badges, tote bag + more and help support the show. Check out the range: http://www.cafepress.com/spacetime Thank you. Plus: Get a free audio book of your choice, plus 30 days free access from audible.com. Just visit www.audibletrial.com/spacetime or click on the banner link at www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com Email: [email protected] Join our mailing list at http://www.bitesz.com/join-our-mailing-list For more, follow SpaceTime on Facebook, twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Google+ and Clammr: Facebook: @spacetimewithstuartgary twitter: @stuartgary Tumblr: http://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/2/collection/cabtNB YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhpBkuHSLfIRnliLB12HoC1QE0rwr8qRS Clammr: http://www.clammr.com/app/spacetime If you're enjoying SpaceTime, please help out by sharing and telling your friends. The best recommendation I can get is one from you. Thank you...

No one's sure what fast radio bursts are, so some Harvard scientists asked: Why not aliens? Learn more about this story at www.newsy.com/67725/ Find more videos like this at www.newsy.com Follow Newsy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/newsyvideos Follow Newsy on Twitter: www.twitter.com/newsyvideos

An update in my continuing coverage of Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs, one of the strangest phenomena in the universe. https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01109 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4uWOBNR8w Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300039 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

The feasibility of a gigantic radio transmitter beaming Fast Radio Burst (FRB) signals across the cosmos has been studied. Could these signals be propelling Alien spacecraft? - Read the full story: https://goo.gl/9sxj9b Credit: Space.com / Produced and Edited by @SteveSpaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

New research out of Harvard is speculating that a “mysterious phenomena called fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology.”

Stream Episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com or www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com (both mobile friendly) *Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts linked to a distant dwarf galaxy and maybe a Magnetar Astronomers are a step closer to finally determining what mysterious powerful energy blasts known as Fast Radio Bursts are. They’ve narrowed down a likely source to a distant ancient dwarf galaxy some three billion light years away – and possibly to a highly magnetic type of neutron star known as a magnetar. *Two new missions to explore early solar system NASA has selected two missions designed to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system -- a time less than 10 million years after the birth of the Sun. The missions, known as Lucy and Psyche will fly in 2021 and 2013 respectively. *Two more Near Earth objects discovered NASA's NEOWISE mission has discovered another two previously unknown Near Earth Objects or NEOs heading for our celestial neighbourhood, including one that further blurs the line between asteroids and comets. One is an object called 2016 WF9 in an orbit that takes it on a scenic tour of our solar system, while the other is a new comet named C/2016 U1 NEOWISE which has a good chance of becoming visible through binoculars. *Dark Matter pioneer astronomer Vera Rubin dies at 88 One of the great pioneers of Dark Matter – astronomer Vera Rubin has passed away aged 88. Rubin’s pioneering research measuring galactic rotation curves proved there was something fundamentally wrong with sciences understanding of the physics of the universe. Either there was a serious flaw in the laws of gravity or there was a great deal of unseen mass out there -- needed to explain observations of the apparent movement of galaxies in clusters. We now know that missing mass is Dark Matter. *Military satellite launched on Delta IV rocket One of the world’s most advanced military telecommunications satellites has been successfully launched into orbit. The eighth US Air Force Wideband Global Satcom system‘s satellite WGS-8 blasted into black skies aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida. For Enhanced Show Notes, including photos to accompany this episode: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetime-show-notes RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/4642443.rss NEW: The SpaceTime with Stuart Gary merchandise shop. Get your T-Shirts, Coffee Cups, badges, tote bag + more and help support the show. Check out the range: http://www.cafepress.com/spacetime Thank you. NEW: Help support SpaceTime and get a free audio book of your choice, plus 30 days free access from audible.com. Over 180,000 titles to choose from. Just visit www.audibletrial.com/spacetime or click on the banner link at www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com Email: [email protected] Join our mailing list at http://www.bitesz.com/join-our-mailing-list For more, follow SpaceTime on Facebook, twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Google+ and Clammr: Facebook: @spacetimewithstuartgary twitter: @stuartgary Tumblr: http://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/2/collection/cabtNB YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhpBkuHSLfIRnliLB12HoC1QE0rwr8qRS Clammr: http://www.clammr.com/app/spacetime If you're enjoying SpaceTime, please help out by sharing and telling your friends. The best recommendation I can get is one from you. Thank you... #astronomy #space #science #technology #news #fastradiobursts #nasa #VeraRubin

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Since the first discovery of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) in 2007, the phenomena has perplexed astronomers. To date, 18 FRBs have been detected but FRB 121102 (discovered in 2012) was the first to repeat itself. This gave astronomers the ability to observe it for a long period of time and determine its location - a dwarf galaxy that is 3 billion light-years from Earth. -- Full Story: https://goo.gl/XzXXZo Credit: Gemini Observatory / Edited by Space.com's @SteveSpaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

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A team of astronomers reported it has come upon 10 fast radio bursts that appear to come from both far away and a solitary source. Ever since a radio burst coming from space was first identified 15 years ago, many astronomers have been searching for more, some hoping to detect repeat signals from the same entity.  While the latter sort of effort has not proven successful over the past decade and a half, that recently changed.  A team reported it has come upon 10 radio blips that appear to come from both far away and a solitary source.  The signals are technically called fast radio bursts, or FRBs and are often attributed to truly enormous cataclysms occurring in the universe, such as exploding stars. As the object creating the burst is decimated in the process, it would explain why up until now only once-occurring signals have been detected.  However, the potential existence of repeat signals indicates that other source possibilities exist.  The team suspects the origin of the multiple signals may be, according to the CBC, “a rotating neutron star like a pulsar, but much farther away.”  It also suggests there could be different types of FRBs.

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For the first time ever, a fast radio burst (FRB) has been traced to its source location, a distant galaxy six billion light-years away.

The cosmic activity known as fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have remained a mystery to astronomers, but a recent study by an international team of researchers provides some startling insights into the phenomenon. The cosmic activity known as fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have remained a mystery to astronomers, but a recent study provides some startling insights into the phenomenon.  FRBs are flashes of radio signals that are typically over in milliseconds; before this paper, only 16 had been identified.  Because these events are fast, rare, and usually detected years after they happen, a team created an alert to go off should such activity be detected by Australia’s Parkes Radio Telescope. An FRB occurred on April 18th, and, based on the collected data, scientists were able to determine that it came from an elliptical galaxy around 6 billion light years away.  This galaxy is known to be old which discounts the theory that these bursts originate from young pulsars.  Instead, as one of the authors has stated, “It might mean that the FRB results from, say, two neutron stars colliding rather than anything to do with recent star birth.”

For almost 10 years, astronomers have been trying to track down the source of mysterious cosmic radiowaves called Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which are brighter than our Sun, packed with energy, and flash across the Universe in random directions thousands of times a day. http://sostrenews.com/study-finds-mysterious-cosmic-radio-waves-could-have-come-from-a-starquake/ http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

A few years ago, strange radio waves were being picked up from deep within outer space! Where are they coming from? Join Laci as she discusses a few possible logical explanations for radio waves in space. Follow DNews on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dnews Follow Laci on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gogreen18 Read More: Fast Radio Burst Discovered In The Arecibo Pulsar Alfa Survey http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/790/2/101 "Recent work has exploited pulsar survey data to identify temporally isolated, millisecond-duration radio bursts with large dispersion measures (DMs)." Mysterious Radio Burst Detected From Deep Space but Scientists Have 'No Handle on What They Are' http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/11/mysterious-radio-burst-detected-from-deep-space-but-scientists-have-no-handle-on-what-they-are/ "It was only a split-second burst of radio waves, but what a radio telescope in Puerto Rico detected has scientists excited about pulses that seem to be originating in deep space." More Puzzling Radio Bursts From Deep Space http://www.futurity.org/radio-bursts-deep-space-730642/ "Astronomers have detected very fast bursts of radio waves coming from deep in outer space and they don't know the source." Watch More: Saturn's Hexagon Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61mdtQDl9k8 TestTube Wild Card http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-382-what-ancient-wine-tasted-like?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=DNews&utm_campaign=DNWC Why the Moon Has 2 Sides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2fU1uxwQY ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter http://twitter.com/dnews Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez Tara Long on Twitter https://twitter.com/TaraLongest Laci Green on Twitter http://twitter.com/gogreen18 DNews on Facebook https://facebook.com/DiscoveryNews DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com Download the TestTube App: http://testu.be/1ndmmMq

This narrated video describes the discovery of a new population of radio bursts that appear to come from cosmological distances that was published today in Science. The bursts offer a new way to count the number of atoms in the Universe and have mysterious origins.

Lightning in the clouds is directly linked to events that produce some of the highest-energy light naturally made on Earth: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). An instrument aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was recently fine-tuned to better catch TGFs, and this allowed scientists to discover that TGFs emit radio waves, too. This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11131 Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA's Goddard Shorts HD podcast: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard