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ESA Discovers Unexpected 'Haze' of Microwave Transmissions
astroengine writes "The European space observatory Planck has discovered something peculiar about our galaxy: it's humming in microwaves and, for the moment, the source of the 'hard' radiation surrounding the galaxy's core is a complete mystery. Also, the Milky Way is home to previously unknown 'islands' of cold carbon monoxide gas, helping astronomers uncover the distribution of star-forming regions."
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The Grox did it. And the carbon monoxide gas must be some byproduct when they produce spice.
Probably Collectors' galactic core base activating its latest human-genetic powered Reaper.
Nice to see some new results from Planck, but the summary is a misleading (and the article itself too, to a lesser degree) when it comes to the haze. This haze was discovered by Planck's predecessor, the WMAP satellite - in fact, it is best known as the WMAP haze. It is true that its cause is unknown, though. People like to speculate that it might be due to annihilation of dark matter particles or other exotic physics, which would be exciting, but I'm partial to something more mundane, like more frequent supernova explosions near the center, as mentioned in the article.
"Why are we here?" To think we finally know the answer to our origin... Our galaxy and everything in it is just some quick heat-n-eat snack for some celestial being. Now that's food for thought.
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Maybe we should ask Jimmy Jendrix if the haze is purple?
How does this relate to cosmic background radiation?
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Get back to your own universe! Shoo! Shoo!
Thought thinks itself.
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Anyone else first read that as WEP satellite?
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Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
...a leftover from a cosmic bong smoking party.
"UV Haze in outer space /
aliens left it in this place /
their awful silent, we don't know why/
meanwhile SETI search the sky"
Apologies to Hendrix fans.
Silence is a state of mime.
Didn't Larry Niven explain the reason for hard radiation from the center of the galaxy in his 1966 travelogue "At the Core"?
Great.. so we have to worry about galactic global warming too?
A few years ago my town started making people dispose of their old microwave ovens at a special "transfer" location at the town dump, rather than just letting us bury them in our backyard like they used to. I've always wondered what they did with all those microwave ovens. Now I know.
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That is poorly formulated. "Transmissions" would make one think of the intentional dispatching of information. Which this microwave surely does not represent, I presume ? Aliens and SETI: Not yet ?
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Dark Energy and Matter are odd ducks.
In both classical and quantum physics matter radiates electromagnetic energy according to its absolute temperature. To NOT be visible, i.e., NOT radiate electromagnetic energy, Dark Matter MUST be at zero degrees Kelvin, which is impossible to reach because of Second and Third Law considerations. Also, if the Universe were made up of, as some have proposed, 90% of more of Dark Matter, the mean temperature of the Universe would be colder than 2.5 Kelvin. Black bodies are the best known emitters and absorbers of EMR. How could Dark Matter absorb EMR for BILLIONS of years and yet remain invisible? Why has no one posted a picture showing a galaxy partly obscured by a blob of DM if it is so pervasive?
DM reminds me of the 19th century's conumdrum, the "Ether". It's properties were also outsides the boundries of known physics, and proved impossible. So thin as to be invisible, yet so ridged as to allow light to travel at extremely high velocity. Despite that regidity, even Newton established that the Ether could not support planetary vorticies nor imped the motion of comets.
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I work at a telescope that does similar work. a couple weeks ago, we were doing some tests with the antenna pointed to fixed azimuth/elevation angles, which results in the telescope scanning the sky due to the Earth's rotation. We were watching the spectrum display, and saw many instances of strong (1 Kelvin or bigger) CO lines appear in thoroughly random places, perhaps 5% of the observing time. That's a lot of CO!
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Maybe the microwaves are like a sort of pollution from local communications?
It was a mistake to tell the RIAA the microwaves are carrying pirated music. Now they're suing the galaxy to make them stop.
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