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openin’ the door to the microwave one second early because you don’t need all the hootin’ and hollerin’

I’D LOVE TO ELABORATE because this is one of my favorite astronomy stories.

Okay. So in the field of Radio Astronomy, there’s this phenomenon called a “fast radio burst”, a very short, strong radio pulse picked up by a radio telescope. They’re still poorly understood, and are considered very exciting to radio astronomers because of how rare they are.

In the 20...