Jodrell Bank leads international effort which reveals 157 day cycle in unusual cosmic radio bursts

Manchester UK (SPX) Jun 09, 2020

An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year observing campaign conducted at the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Using the long-term monitoring capabilities of the iconic Lovell Telescope, an international team led by Jodrell Bank astronomers has been studying an object known as a repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB), which emits ve