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Solar Child

10-7-2007 2:25 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a08b22a7-5034-42e9-92e6-fec58128aa89/D675A7C4-89CE-41AA-A13F-FC27AE40C78E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070927_new_astronomy.html" href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070927_new_astronomy.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070927_new_astronomy.html"><B>Astronomers Find Mysterious Radio Burst </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070927_new_astronomy.html"><SPAN>A new and
intense type of radio burst has been discovered in archived views of the
cosmos, astronomers revealed today.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070927_new_astronomy.html"><SPAN>The single,
<A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070927_magellanic_cloud_02.jpg&cap=A+visible-light+image+of+the+Small+Magellanic+Cloud%2C+combined+with+radio+observation+data+%28contoured+lines%29.+The+blue+circle+marks+where+a+strange+5-millisecond+radio+burst+originated.+Credit:+Lorimer+et+al.%2C+NRAO%2C+AUI%2C+NSF">short-lived blast</A> of radio waves likely occurred some 3 billion light-years
from Earth, and it may signal a cosmic car crash of two neutron stars, the
death throes of a black hole—or something else.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070927_new_astronomy.html"><SPAN>"We're
confused and excited, but it could open up a whole new research field,"
Lorimer told <I>SPACE.com</I> of the 5-millisecond blip on the cosmic radar
screen. "If we really go after these things, we expect to find out that a
couple hundred of them occur each day."</SPAN></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070927_magellanic_cloud_02.jpg&cap=A+visible-light+image+of+the+Small+Magellanic+Cloud%2C+combined+with+radio+observation+data+%28contoured+lines%29.+The+blue+circle+marks+where+a+strange+5-millisecond+radio+burst+originated.+Credit%3A+Lorimer+et+al.%2C+NRAO%2C+AUI%2C+NSF" href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070927_magellanic_cloud_02.jpg&cap=A+visible-light+image+of+the+Small+Magellanic+Cloud%2C+combined+with+radio+observation+data+%28contoured+lines%29.+The+blue+circle+marks+where+a+strange+5-millisecond+radio+burst+originated.+Credit%3A+Lorimer+et+al.%2C+NRAO%2C+AUI%2C+NSF" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070927_magellanic_cloud_02.jpg&cap=A+visible-light+image+of+the+Small+Magellanic+Cloud%2C+combined+with+radio+observation+data+%28contoured+lines%29.+The+blue+circle+marks+where+a+strange+5-millisecond+radio+burst+originated.+Credit%3A+Lorimer+et+al.%2C+NRAO%2C+AUI%2C+NSF"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/4D012388-2CF2-4AE4-BB31-FC2B1085F3E7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070927_magellanic_cloud_02.jpg&cap=A+visible-light+image+of+the+Small+Magellanic+Cloud%2C+combined+with+radio+observation+data+%28contoured+lines%29.+The+blue+circle+marks+where+a+strange+5-millisecond+radio+burst+originated.+Credit%3A+Lorimer+et+al.%2C+NRAO%2C+AUI%2C+NSF"><FONT size="2" face="arial" color="#000000">A visible-light image of the Small Magellanic Cloud, combined with radio observation data (contoured lines). The blue circle marks where a strange 5-millisecond radio burst originated. Credit: Lorimer et al., NRAO, AUI, NSF</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D675A7C4-89CE-41AA-A13F-FC27AE40C78E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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