{"id":139621,"date":"2022-05-20T01:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T06:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-puzzled-by-spooky-object-sending-radio-signals-every-18-minutes-from-deep-space"},"modified":"2022-05-20T01:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T06:02:17","slug":"scientists-puzzled-by-spooky-object-sending-radio-signals-every-18-minutes-from-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-puzzled-by-spooky-object-sending-radio-signals-every-18-minutes-from-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Puzzled by \u201cSpooky\u201d Object Sending Radio Signals Every 18 Minutes From Deep Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-puzzled-by-spooky-object-sending-radio-signals-every-18-minutes-from-deep-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers are flummoxed by a mysterious celestial object that appears to be releasing massive bursts of energy at regular 18 minute intervals.<\/p>\n<p>Like a lighthouse, the beacon is sending out radiation three times an hour at such an intensity that it\u2019s one of the brightest points in the sky \u2014 and, researchers say, it could turn out to be an entirely new class of celestial object.<\/p>\n<p>A team, led by astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, had a closer look at the object after it was discovered by Curtin University student Tyrone O\u2019Doherty, who used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in outback Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers are flummoxed by a mysterious celestial object that appears to be releasing massive bursts of energy at regular 18 minute intervals. Like a lighthouse, the beacon is sending out radiation three times an hour at such an intensity that it\u2019s one of the brightest points in the sky \u2014 and, researchers say, it could [\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-139621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139621","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=139621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}