{"id":115978,"date":"2020-11-17T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-find-more-bright-blasts-of-energy-coming-from-space"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:23:04","slug":"scientists-find-more-bright-blasts-of-energy-coming-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-find-more-bright-blasts-of-energy-coming-from-space","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find more bright blasts of energy coming from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-more-bright-blasts-of-energy-coming-from-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have detected two bright radio bursts from a magnetar in our galaxy, as they get closer to discovering the source of the blasts.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/radio-burst-fast-galaxy-milky-way-b1590956.html\">scientists discovered that fast radio bursts were coming from the object, in a major breakthrough in the search for the source of those mysterious blasts of energy<\/a>. It was the first time an FRB had been detected coming from inside our Milky Way, and also the first time such a blast had been traced back to a particular source.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists say they have found new bursts coming from that same magnetar. That should help further indicate whether it is really a source of FRBs \u2013 and whether the same process could be powering those bursts we have discovered coming from elsewhere in the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have detected two bright radio bursts from a magnetar in our galaxy, as they get closer to discovering the source of the blasts. Earlier this month, scientists discovered that fast radio bursts were coming from the object, in a major breakthrough in the search for the source of those mysterious blasts of energy. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115978","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}