{"id":506031,"date":"2018-08-08T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=096b31549f956aa7b8eaea7a048ecdcb"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:50:44","slug":"new-canadian-radio-telescope-is-detecting-fast-radio-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=506031","title":{"rendered":"New Canadian radio telescope is detecting fast radio bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since they were first detected in 2007, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been a source of mystery to astronomers. In radio astronomy, this phenomenon refers to transient radio pulses coming from distant sources that typically last a few milliseconds on average. Despite the detection of dozens of events since 2007, scientists are still not sure what causes them \u2013 though theories range from exploding stars, black holes, and magnetars to alien civilizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since they were first detected in 2007, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been a source of mystery to astronomers. In radio astronomy, this phenomenon refers to transient radio pulses coming from distant sources that typically last a few milliseconds on average. Despite the detection of dozens of events since 2007, scientists are still not sure what causes them &ndash; though theories range from exploding stars, black holes, and magnetars to alien civilizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506032,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506031\/revisions\/506032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}