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Marcin Glowacki, Research Associate, Curtin University

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Astronomers detected two major targets with a single telescope a mysterious signal and its source galaxy | History Defined

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Astronomers have been working to better understand the galactic environments of fast radio bursts (FRBs) – intense, momentary bursts of energy occurring in mere milliseconds and with unknown cosmic origins.

Now, a study of the slow-moving, star-forming gas in the same galaxy found to host an FRB has been published in The Astrophysical Journal. This is only the fourth-ever publication on two completely different areas of astronomy describing the same galaxy.

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