{"id":791453,"date":"2024-11-25T03:21:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T08:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791453"},"modified":"2024-11-25T03:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T08:21:01","slug":"exploding-interstellar-space-rocks-could-explain-mystery-radio-flashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791453","title":{"rendered":"Exploding interstellar space rocks could explain mystery radio flashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Illustration of a neutron star emitting a flash of radio waves<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Science Photo Library \/ Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and several thousand have since been found. They are thought to come from neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after some stars explode as supernovae, but exactly what causes them is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The favoured explanation for FRBs is that they\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2457391-exploding-interstellar-space-rocks-could-explain-mystery-radio-flashes\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration of a neutron star emitting a flash of radio waves Science Photo Library \/ Alamy Stock Photo Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791453","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}