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A space object is firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:29 pm
Vice
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Out in the cosmic wilds of our galaxy, some 15,000 light-years from our collective home, astronomers have found something that behaves like a galactic lighthouse. It’s called ASKAP J1832-0911, and…whatever it is, it sends out a pulse or blink or signal, whatever you want to call it, once every 44 minutes like it’s trying to reach out in Morse code, but very slowly.
Discovered with Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope, this peculiar beacon emits two-minute-long pulses of both radio and X-rays. That’s rare. The only reason we even noticed this extraterrestrial signal playing on two channels was dumb luck: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory happened to be scanning the exact same patch of sky at the exact same time. It’s like tuning into an episode of I Love Lucy in 1953 and finding out it’s being simulcast in Dolby Atmos.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:33 pm to Lowdermilk
Seems too slow of a cadence for a neutron star, right?
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:33 pm to Lowdermilk
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A space object is firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes.
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Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:33 pm to Lowdermilk
We should blast back “kimmy granger likes it rough”.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:33 pm to Lowdermilk
I hope we don't respond. If we do, they're coming here and making us their bitches.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:35 pm to Lowdermilk
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morse code
So they are just sending
EEEEEEEEE
or
TTTTTTTTT?
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:35 pm to Lowdermilk
Maybe a rotating star that has sun spot activity on one side.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:35 pm to Lowdermilk
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It’s like tuning into an episode of I Love Lucy in 1953 and finding out it’s being simulcast in Dolby Atmos.
Fred Mertz GOAT
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:36 pm to Lowdermilk
It’s the numbers 5138008.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:39 pm to Boss13
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We have been sending those out for many years.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:46 pm to GRTiger
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Seems too slow of a cadence for a neutron star, right?
You've come to the wrong place
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:51 pm to LazloHollyfeld
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5138008
Close enough. We know what you meant.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:52 pm to Lowdermilk
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Out in the cosmic wilds of our galaxy, some 15,000 light-years from our collective home, astronomers have found something that behaves like a galactic lighthouse. It’s called ASKAP J1832-0911, and…whatever it is, it sends out a pulse or blink or signal, whatever you want to call it, once every 44 minutes like it’s trying to reach out in Morse code, but very slowly.

Posted on 7/7/25 at 8:19 pm to Lowdermilk
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15,000 light-years from our collective home
This predates organized human civilization.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 8:21 pm to Saintsisit
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I hope we don't respond. If we do, they're coming here and making us their bitches.
Well luckily whatever signals we are receiving likely were sent out well before man existed.
If we send something back not sure you or I need to worry
This post was edited on 7/7/25 at 8:22 pm
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