Guide To Space - What Are Fast Radio Bursts? A Big Mystery in Astronomy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikdOTj6g_Zw

Hosted by Fraser Cain.

From Apr 26, 2017.

Here's a big mystery in astronomy: fast radio bursts. Brief shrieks of radio waves coming from space. What are they? Where do they come from? Astronomers have no idea.

Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected]

Karla Thompson - @karlaii

Chad Weber - [email protected]

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Fast radio bursts are the new cosmic whatzits confusing and baffling astronomers, and now we get to take a front seat and watch them move through all stages of process of discovery.

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