If you told me that the Mediterranean dried up "recently", with no other context, and you were referring to Messinian salinity crisis from 5 MYBP it would significantly limit my belief in your adherence to good-faith conversational form even if it is "recently" in a geological sense.
It’s actually just an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk and was heard because swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the sound from Venus.
Hey, NatGeo doesn't bother me. I know it's NatGeo, so I discount it accordingly.
I reckon it's pretty interesting that the scientists claim to have "conclusively proved" that this very high-energy event occurred in a globular cluster. The article is quite right to note that that's not supposed to happen. Violent cosmic events don't happen in globular clusters.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 39.3 ms ] threadI might consider 11.7 light-years "unusual" or "baffling." But times that by a million and it becomes a lot less so.
The farthest observable galaxy is 1.34 x 10^10 light years.
This FRB is 1.17 x 10^7 light years.
So if you're at zero and end of the line is at 1340, this FRB is at 1.17. That doesn't feel close?
I reckon it's pretty interesting that the scientists claim to have "conclusively proved" that this very high-energy event occurred in a globular cluster. The article is quite right to note that that's not supposed to happen. Violent cosmic events don't happen in globular clusters.