{"id":110860,"date":"2020-08-04T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/mystery-radio-signal-sent-to-earth-from-closest-ever-point-within-milky-way"},"modified":"2020-08-04T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:23:14","slug":"mystery-radio-signal-sent-to-earth-from-closest-ever-point-within-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/mystery-radio-signal-sent-to-earth-from-closest-ever-point-within-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Mystery radio signal sent to Earth from \u2018closest ever point\u2019 within Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-radio-signal-sent-to-earth-from-closest-ever-point-within-milky-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have traced mysterious radio signals detected on Earth to a dead star within our Milky Way galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>The millisecond-long burst of radiation was emitted by a magnestar \u2014 a type of star with an extremely powerful magnetic field \u2014 roughly 14,000 light-years away, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p>Known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), signals such as these have baffled scientists for years and typically originate from far beyond the Milky Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have traced mysterious radio signals detected on Earth to a dead star within our Milky Way galaxy. The millisecond-long burst of radiation was emitted by a magnestar \u2014 a type of star with an extremely powerful magnetic field \u2014 roughly 14,000 light-years away, according to a study. Known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), signals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110860","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}