A radio telescope in Australia caught five-radio burst from the HTLU high latitude survey, first evidence for a two-component bursts.
Fast Radio Bursts, first detected in 2007, are bright blasts of radio energy that stays only for a few milliseconds and are never heard off again. This is another addition to the four burst recorded that originated well outside our Milky Way.
Observed at the Parkes Observatory in Australia, the radio telescope recorded five burst that seemed to be exactly the same with previous findings, for the exception of one burst flashing twice.
David Champion, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany said, "The blast separated by just 2.4 milliseconds came out of some sort of eruption that happened roughly 9 billion years ago in the constellation Octans."
The pattern, having a double flash, had some astronomers give out opinions about what they think caused a radio bursts. This High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena can also mean a collision in comets, asteroids and satellites.
Just outside the NSW, Australia, in the town of Parkes, hosts the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope. It is one of the telescopes comprising CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility and was set to have given the findings of the fast radio bursts.
Parkes radio telescope has been in operation since 1961, already considered an icon, continues to be at the forefront of astronomical discovery. It undergoes heavy upgrades and is equipped with the latest in Computer and Astronomical technology.
Parkes radio telescope is where astronomers from across Australia and around the world utilize as a tool for advance findings. The leaders of Astronomic Community would also like to refer to it as "the Dish", and undertakes a world-class astronomical science.
The Dish, tracked the first interplanetary space mission, Mariner 2, flying by the planet Venus, and in 1969 was a prime receiving station for the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. In a more recent study, in 2012, the observatory played a support role for NASA's exploring rover in the Martian surface.