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Mystery cosmic blasts detected

Parks radio telescope

Astronomers using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope have detected mysterious fast radio bursts or FRBs which have crossed billions of light years Source: Shaun Amy.

Mysterious radio bursts from across the universe detected by the Parkes radio telescope. Also; Earth creates its own mini-version of the solar wind, and star's magnetic cycle flips out astronomers.

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Subjects: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, telescopes, physics, stars, galaxies