Wow!@home is a very interesting distributed radio astronomy project seeking support and remote participation. It is a grassroots technical campaign sponsored by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, and is worth support and participation.
A US grassroots political campaign to support legislation reducing HOA antenna restrictions is underway and worth participation. It only takes a minute to send letters to your representatives. ARRL has more information.
This website is about radio, and the wonder and fun involved. It will have occasional bursts, but slow, and not so powerful. It is a small part of the larger universe filled with wonderful and amazing phenomena.
According to space.com,
A fast radio burst (FRB) is a bright and brief burst of electromagnetic radiation (light) seen in radio-wave frequencies. They usually last thousandths of a second. Some FRBs repeat, but the vast majority happen once and disappear forever.
Fast radio bursts were only relatively recently discovered.
The Parkes Observatory in Australia made the first detection of an FRB as it blasted out of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, in 2001. However, this event would not be discovered until 2007, when astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer and colleagues found it in archival data from the observatory.
Fast radio bursts are theorized to originate from
magnetars, rapidly spinning neutron stars that possess the most powerful magnetic fields in the known universe.
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