{"id":11308,"date":"2021-04-09T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11308"},"modified":"2021-04-12T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T01:59:15","slug":"giant-crab-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/09\/giant-crab-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Crab Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/n7bjb8\/mysterious-radio-blasts-from-space-just-got-a-whole-lot-weirder-somehow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from VICE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mysterious Radio Blasts From Space Just Got a Whole Lot Weirder, Somehow<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists discovered that so-called &#8220;giant radio pulses&#8221; coincide with X-rays, suggesting they are hundreds of times more energetic than previously thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/contributor\/becky-ferreira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Becky Ferreira<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NASA\u2019s NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar\u2019s Radio Bursts\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9GT0IAcjCk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the year 1054, skywatchers in China and Japan witnessed light from an exploding star reach Earth, creating a dazzling bright spot in the sky. More than a millennium later, scientists have now revealed amazing new details about the powerful and unexplained radio signals that eerily emanate from the remains of this ancient supernova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, scientists have been baffled by extremely loud radio signals, known as giant radio pulses (GRPs), that can be traced to a special type of dead star known as a pulsar. Pulsars are compact, rapidly rotating remnants of supernovae that get their name from the clockwork pulses of radiation they emit from their poles, which have made them useful natural timepieces for astronomers who use their regular bursts to measure other celestial phenomena.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/n7bjb8\/mysterious-radio-blasts-from-space-just-got-a-whole-lot-weirder-somehow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at VICE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VICE Mysterious Radio Blasts From Space Just Got a Whole Lot Weirder, Somehow Scientists discovered that so-called &#8220;giant radio pulses&#8221; coincide with X-rays, suggesting they are hundreds of times more energetic than previously thought. By\u00a0Becky Ferreira In the year 1054, skywatchers in China and Japan witnessed light from an exploding star reach Earth, creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}