{"id":23022,"date":"2016-03-02T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts-just-got-even-more-interesting"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:46:12","slug":"mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts-just-got-even-more-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts-just-got-even-more-interesting","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts Just Got Even More Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts-just-got-even-more-interesting.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are a <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/giant-cosmic-radio-burst-caught-in-real-time-for-the-fi-1680374214#_ga=1.18446009.1031241721.1425068057\"> source of endless fascination<\/a>. But despite a decade of observations, not all astronomers are sure that they\u2019re real. A <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature17168\" target=\"_blank\"> study<\/a> out in <em> Nature <\/em> today, which reports the very first recurring FRB, is now causing lingering skepticism to evaporate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is pretty huge,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/newton.cx\/~peter\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Peter Williams<\/a>, an astronomer at Harvard\u2019s Center for Astrophysics who was not involved with the study, told Gizmodo. \u201cFor awhile, I wasn\u2019t sure these things were genuinely astrophysical. This paper settles the question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Williams is not one to take splashy new claims about FRBs\u2014high energy radio pulses of unknown origin, which flit across the sky for a fraction of a second\u2014lightly. In fact, he\u2019s spent the last week <a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/02\/29\/that-blast-of-radio-waves-produced-by-colliding-dead-stars-not-so-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\"> raising major doubts<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature17140\" target=\"_blank\"> another recent study<\/a>, which, as <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/astronomers-finally-pinpoint-the-location-of-mysterious-1761017264#_ga=1.225687578.1031241721.1425068057\"> Gizmodo and other outlets reported<\/a>, claimed to have pinpointed the location of an FRB in space for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/cosmic-radio-bursts-are-real-but-theyre-more-mysteriou-1762041397\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/cosmic-radio-bursts-are-real-but-theyre-m...1762041397<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are a source of endless fascination. But despite a decade of observations, not all astronomers are sure that they\u2019re real. A study out in Nature today, which reports the very first recurring FRB, is now causing lingering skepticism to evaporate. \u201cI think this is pretty huge,\u201d Peter Williams, an astronomer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23022","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62577,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23022\/revisions\/62577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}