Mystery radio signal could be from universe's first stars

[Mr. McD]

A balloon-borne experiment has turned up a mysterious radio signal that seems to be coming from beyond the Milky Way. Astronomers do not yet have a clear explanation for the static, but say it could come from the universe's first generation of stars.

Instead, after subtracting known radio sources in the Milky Way and other galaxies, an unexplained radio static was left that seemed to pervade the sky and was some six times louder than all known astronomical sources combined at the same radio frequency.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16378-mystery-radio-signal-could-be-from-universes-first-stars.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

[tridim]

1. Dark energy!

I really want to know what that stuff is.

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. reruns of Paul Harvey's early work /nt

[patrice]

4. lol! . . . or Arthur Godfrey!

:hi:

[stevedeshazer]

3. Is this different from the Penzias - Wilson discovery of cosmic background radiation?

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Cosmos/Footprints.html

I'm not a scientist, but it sounds familiar.

[Lint Head]

5. It all of the swear words ever spoken bouncing against the fabric

of space any returning.
:dem:

[Indenturedebtor]

6. Pffft everyone know's that it's the destruction of Alderan... you Noobs.

:eyes: