{"id":108160,"date":"2020-06-04T02:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/astronomers-just-narrowed-down-the-source-of-those-powerful-radio-signals-from-space"},"modified":"2020-06-04T02:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:05:54","slug":"astronomers-just-narrowed-down-the-source-of-those-powerful-radio-signals-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/astronomers-just-narrowed-down-the-source-of-those-powerful-radio-signals-from-space","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Just Narrowed Down The Source of Those Powerful Radio Signals From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-just-narrowed-down-the-source-of-those-powerful-radio-signals-from-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strange, powerful signals from deep space called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fast-radio-bursts\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"fast radio bursts\">fast radio bursts<\/a> are slippery little suckers. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most of them just flash once, a mysterious huge spike in the radio data out of nowhere, lasting just milliseconds at most. They can\u2019t be predicted, and because they\u2019re so brief, they\u2019re incredibly hard to trace.<\/p>\n<p>Hard; but not impossible. Less than a year ago, for the first time, astronomers announced they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-just-traced-a-single-mysterious-fast-radio-burst-to-its-home-galaxy\">traced one of these mysterious one-off signals<\/a> to its source galaxy. Since then, their techniques have allowed them to trace three more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange, powerful signals from deep space called fast radio bursts are slippery little suckers. Most of them just flash once, a mysterious huge spike in the radio data out of nowhere, lasting just milliseconds at most. They can\u2019t be predicted, and because they\u2019re so brief, they\u2019re incredibly hard to trace. Hard; but not impossible. Less [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}