{"id":123098,"date":"2021-05-27T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nasa-traces-source-of-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-sending-signals-to-earth"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:39:44","slug":"nasa-traces-source-of-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-sending-signals-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nasa-traces-source-of-mysterious-fast-radio-bursts-sending-signals-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA traces source of mysterious fast radio bursts sending signals to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fj44JQvE4E0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t panic, but mysterious sources have been sending radio signals to Earth for years. Now, scientists have tracked down some of their origins \u2014 and they were surprised by what they found.<\/p>\n<p>And no, it\u2019s still not aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/hubble-tracks-down-fast-radio-bursts-to-galaxies-spiral-arms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, astronomers have traced the locations of five deep space signals known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fast-radio-burst-frb-deep-space-sending-signals-earth-every-16-days\/\" target=\"_blank\">fast radio bursts<\/a> (FRBs). In a thousandth of a second, these powerful blasts generate as much energy as the sun does in an entire year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t panic, but mysterious sources have been sending radio signals to Earth for years. Now, scientists have tracked down some of their origins \u2014 and they were surprised by what they found. And no, it\u2019s still not aliens. Using NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have traced the locations of five deep space signals known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123098","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=123098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}