Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected

[katty]

more: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090107-aas-loud-cosmic-noise.html

Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected
By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 07 January 2009
04:43 pm ET

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected.
The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it.

Of course, sound waves can't travel in a vacuum (which is what most of space is), or at least they can't very efficiently. But radio waves can.

Radio waves are not sound waves, but they are still electromagnetic waves, situated on the low-frequency end of the light spectrum.

Many objects in the universe, including stars and quasars, emit radio waves. Even our home galaxy, the Milky Way, emits a static hiss (first detected in 1931 by physicist Karl Jansky). Other galaxies also send out a background radio hiss.

But the newly detected signal, described here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, is far louder than astronomers expected.

There is "something new and interesting going on in the universe," said Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. The Universe celebrating the Obama victory?

[AntiFascist]

12. More appropriate to post this in GD:P n/t

[roguevalley]

22. snort. I *love* your answer, Liberal_in_LA

[Delphinus]

25. Ha-ha!

Beautiful response!!

[WeDidIt]

2. IT's the Daemons of Chaos getting ready to come in on a Crusade

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Chaos

[Teaser]

3. yeah, uh sorry about that.

I like greens, ok?

[DJ13]

4. God's coming for us, and she is pissed!

[Joanne98]

5. Maybe it's the big bang! lol

[Fumesucker]

16. No, that's been found, it's the cosmic microwave background.. n/t

[pleah]

6. A new star is born.

to add: K&R

[aquart]

7. "New and interesting" does not equal "good."

[Yes We Did]

19. Exactly.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. GOP entering into mass cliff leap, most likely

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Scientists unable to decipher Hubble imagery.

[SoCalDem]

10. Space Howler-Monkeys?

:)

[Deja Q]

11. AT LAST!! SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN!!!

:woohoo: :party: :woohoo: :party: :woohoo: :party: :woohoo: :party: :woohoo: :party: :woohoo: :party: :woohoo: :party: :woohoo: :party:

[gratuitous]

15. The fat jolly elf, or the Futurama version?

Not that I have anything to worry about either way, as I'm on everyone's nice list. Or some kind of list.

[Mike 03]

13. Possibly static from the so-called Big Bang? NT

[AntiFascist]

14. I think this was just explained here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=228&topic_id=48225&mesg_id=48250

I watch the History Channel, ask me anything.

[WilliamPitt]

17. Jeebus is coming, look busy.

[Malikshah]

18. Uh.......excuse me. I thought I was alone and no one would hear.

Gotta cut out those guacamole-prune smoothies....

;)

[RiverStone]

20. Not from space silly, try the jungle...

http://www.bergoiata.org/fe/felins/Roaring,%20African%20Lion.jpg

[Marie26]

21. It's the big bang, no? nt

[POR]

23. You know what I think

I betcha somebody just forgot to turn off Dolby THX on the Universaphone.

[Delphinus]

24. Fascinating.

This raises many questions.

[Richard D]

26. Proof positive . . .

That the FSM eats beans.

[Bluebear]

27. Jerry Falwell letting out one last gaseous eruption of hate.

[librechik]

28. Ah--They got the Chuck Berry!

responding back with their version of Metallica...

[ACTION BASTARD]

29. It's The Call of Cthulhu!

The Great Ancient Ones have awoken and they are coming. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!