A new way of finding mysterious fast radio bursts using Australian technology and an Australian telescope! A very cool innovation that's already finding new things www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01... 🧪🔭 - ThreadSky

astrolaura.com • 76 days ago

A new way of finding mysterious fast radio bursts using Australian technology and an Australian telescope! A very cool innovation that's already finding new things https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-28/more-than-20-mysterious-signal-found-space-csiro-technology/104863172 🧪🔭

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eagleneedle.bsky.social•75 days ago

We don't to attract any aliens here when the US has been taken over by them.

bardinthecorner.bsky.social•76 days ago

Fantastic article thanks for sharing. Yay for Oz & CSIRO being deeply involved in this.

astrolaura.com•76 days ago

My pleasure! It's very cool to see such amazing research being done right here in Australia

bardinthecorner.bsky.social•76 days ago

It's great to see. Hope there's more to come.

astrolaura.com•76 days ago

You can read the journal article open access on the ArXiv here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10316 and the peer-reviewed version in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

lexie1179.bsky.social•76 days ago

Cool. Phoning home?

astrolaura.com•76 days ago

Defs not aliens, but it's fun to imagine that FRBs are from aliens! 👽🪐

lexie1179.bsky.social•76 days ago

Gotta come from somewhere.

astrolaura.com•76 days ago

They do! The current theories for how FRBs are made mostly involve neutron stars. Those are extremely dense, small stars left over after massive stars explode as supernovae

lexie1179.bsky.social•76 days ago

Does anyone know what actually generates the FRB, or is it just speculation at this point?

astrolaura.com•76 days ago

We don't currently know, but "speculation" isn't really the right word either. There are many papers that take the observational evidence and theorise what could explain what we observe. They then make predictions on what we would expect to see if their theory were correct

para-handy.bsky.social•75 days ago

Any new finding using the technology should be called a 'Struth'

erikthered612.bsky.social•76 days ago

They really dropped the ball not making the acronym CRIKY :(

astrolaura.com•76 days ago

Oh damn! But on the other hand, gives me a chance to try and make that acronym work for my research 🤔😆

gyarkow.bsky.social•76 days ago

that's a great achievement for australian science, this breakthrough could lead to significant discoveries in the field of astrophysics.

astrolaura.com•76 days ago

It is a great achievement! Lots of new research to be done 🌟

jupiterdi.bsky.social•76 days ago

@okovody.bsky.social Fascinating stuff.

duke-newcomb.bsky.social•76 days ago

Kool

darksapiens.bsky.social•75 days ago

📌

robotblue.bsky.social•76 days ago

Ugh if it’s aliens…. Tell them to go away and come back when nature has claimed the planet.

astrolaura.com•76 days ago

As the old astronomy saying goes, "it's not aliens" 😂👽 but if it were aliens, I'm sure they'd know that there are plenty of other nice space rocks out there

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