Fast radio bursts might come from nearby stars
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 13:00
in Astronomy & Space
First discovered in 2007, "fast radio bursts" continue to defy explanation. These cosmic chirps last for only a thousandth of a second. The characteristics of the radio pulses suggested that they came from galaxies billions of light-years away. However, new work points to a much closer origin -- flaring stars within our own galaxy.