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Amazing Discovery At the Center of the Galaxy

GCRT J1745-3009

Wow, a pulsing radio source lasting only 77 minutes and moving through space at the center of the galaxy (this one, not the one far, far, away). I think they are finally returning to pick me up.

Of interest to the scientists is the fact that no x-rays were detected along with the radio waves, because many astronomical sources emit both.

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...using the Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico. Radio waves having wavelengths around one meter long were of particular interest to the team: between September 30 and October 1, 2002, they detected five bursts of such radiation, which repeated at regular intervals. The bursts coming from the new source, dubbed GCRT J1745-3009, each lasted about 10 minutes and repeated on a 77-minute cycle for nearly seven hours. In addition, the source is not stationary. "It [GCRT J1745-3009] has not been detected since 2002," Hyman notes, "nor is it present on earlier images."

a Scientific American article via SciScoop

Bright Object in the Northern Sky?

It is 21:33 local time in The San Francisco Bay Area, and I'm trying to figure out what that extremely bright object is to the north/north east. Can't seem to find anything about it on the web. Anyone know what it is? Venus? Asteroid? Supernova? Imperial Star Destroyer?

please post a comment if you know.

KMA

Incoming Signals

from a NASA site, regarding a March 7th SETI run:

"No one knows for sure what caused this signal. There is a slight possibility that it just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence."

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