{"id":116014,"date":"2020-11-18T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/first-fast-radio-burst-discovered-in-the-milky-way-is-now-repeating"},"modified":"2020-11-18T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T18:25:08","slug":"first-fast-radio-burst-discovered-in-the-milky-way-is-now-repeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/first-fast-radio-burst-discovered-in-the-milky-way-is-now-repeating","title":{"rendered":"First fast radio burst discovered in the Milky Way is now repeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/10\/10\/8401316427385491441\/1024x576_MP4_8401316427385491441.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The first radio burst discovered in the Milky Way is now repeating as it travels from a magnetar \u2013 a neutron star with a strong magnetic field \u2013 32,616 light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>The initial flash of energy was first detected in April and scientist have identified two more, confirming fast radio bursts \u2018are emitted by magnetars at cosmological distances.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A team working with the Westerbrok Telescope in the <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/news\/the-netherlands\/index.html\" id=\"mol-f35f7420-2925-11eb-93f2-6fcbb1d2f729\">Netherlands<\/a> captured the signal, which came as two short bursts, each one millisecond long and 1.4 seconds apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first radio burst discovered in the Milky Way is now repeating as it travels from a magnetar \u2013 a neutron star with a strong magnetic field \u2013 32,616 light-years away. The initial flash of energy was first detected in April and scientist have identified two more, confirming fast radio bursts \u2018are emitted by magnetars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116014","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}