Mysterious radio signals from outer space baffles scientists
Astronomers are surprised by the variety of signals received from space at times. Something similar happened when they received mysterious radio waves from the center of our Galaxy, the nearest star to our Sun. Discussions of mysterious waves got wind when it was found that these signals were found when life was being searched outside the Earth.
Source not found
These signals were caught by Australia’s Parkes Telescope in April and May 2019. At that time scientists could not be successful in locating their sources. According to the report of The Guardian, the frequency of these waves is 980 MHz. This is a very low frequency, but the change in it was similar to the movement of the planet of the star Proxima Century.
According to the researchers, the radio signals do not fit the pattern of any radio source and point to some unknown celestial object. Astronomers have shared their results in a study published in The Astrophysical Journal. In a Sydney University press release, lead author Ziteng Wang said that the strangest thing about the new wave is that it has a lot of polarization.
Discovered with the ASKAP Radio Telescope
He said that we have never seen anything like this before. Wang said that at first he thought these signals were coming from a star. But these waves are completely different from that pattern. Wang and an international team of experts discovered its source using CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope in Western Australia. The researchers named the object ASKAP J173608.2-321635.
