{"id":18367,"date":"2020-11-07T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T09:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18367"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:06:50","slug":"fast-radio-bursts-detected-in-the-milky-way-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fast-radio-bursts-detected-in-the-milky-way-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast radio bursts detected in the Milky Way for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Intense pulses of radio waves known as <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fast-radio-bursts-detected-in-the-milky-way-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fast radio bursts<\/a> (FRB) have been found in the Milky Way for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What are Fast Radio Bursts(FRB): <\/strong>These are bright bursts of radio waves (radio waves can be produced by astronomical objects with changing magnetic fields) whose durations lie in the millisecond-scale, because of which it is difficult to detect them and determine their position in the sky.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who discovered it? <\/strong>It was detected by several satellites including NASA\u2019s Wind mission and Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a radio telescope located in British Columbia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source of FRBs: <\/strong>The study has suggested that magnetars could be the source of some fast radio bursts(FRBs).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> The FRB was the closest signal ever recorded near the Earth.It was also 3,000 times brighter than any other magnetar radio signal detected till now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Magnetar: <\/strong>It is a type of neutron star.The magnetic field of such a star is very powerful, which can be over 10 trillion times stronger than a refrigerator magnet and up to a thousand times stronger than a typical neutron star\u2019s.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neutron: <\/strong>Neutron stars are formed when the core of a massive star undergoes gravitational collapse when it reaches the end of its life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Intense pulses of radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRB) have been found in the Milky Way for the first time. &nbsp; Facts: What are Fast Radio Bursts(FRB): These are bright bursts of radio waves (radio waves can be produced by astronomical objects with changing magnetic fields) whose durations lie in the millisecond-scale,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fast-radio-bursts-detected-in-the-milky-way-for-the-first-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fast radio bursts detected in the Milky Way for the first time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2518,3066],"class_list":["post-18367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-fast-radio-bursts","tag-magnetar","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702746273},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}