{"id":119996,"date":"2021-02-26T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/astronomers-think-theyve-found-the-neutron-star-remnant-left-behind-from-supernova-1987a"},"modified":"2021-02-26T21:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:22:26","slug":"astronomers-think-theyve-found-the-neutron-star-remnant-left-behind-from-supernova-1987a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/astronomers-think-theyve-found-the-neutron-star-remnant-left-behind-from-supernova-1987a","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Think They\u2019ve Found the Neutron Star Remnant Left Behind from Supernova 1987A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-think-theyve-found-the-neutron-star-remnant-left-behind-from-supernova-1987a2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study of x-ray bursts from a local magnetar confirms the origin of a fast radio burst.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Every now and then there is a burst of radio light in the sky. It lasts for just milliseconds before fading. It\u2019s known as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), and they are difficult to observe and study. We know they are powerful bursts of energy, but we aren\u2019t entirely sure what causes them.<\/p>\n<p>The more we\u2019ve learned about FRBs, the stranger they appear. Most occur outside our galaxy, but there are a few that seem to originate within the Milky Way. Most seem to appear at random in the sky, but a few of them are repeating FRBs. Some of them even repeat with surprising regularity. Because of this, astronomers generally think they can\u2019t be caused by a cataclysmic event, such as the last radio burst of a neutron star as it collapses into a black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of x-ray bursts from a local magnetar confirms the origin of a fast radio burst. Every now and then there is a burst of radio light in the sky. It lasts for just milliseconds before fading. It\u2019s known as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), and they are difficult to observe and study. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119996","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=119996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}