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Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies Compass

FRBs
  • Release Date
    May 20, 2021
  • Science Release
    Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, Alexandra Mannings (UC Santa Cruz); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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Fast Radio Burst Host Residuals

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have tracked down two brief, powerful radio bursts to the spiral arms of the two galaxies shown at top and bottom of this image. The catalogue names of the bursts are FRB 190714, top row, and FRB 180924, bottom row. The galaxies are...

FRBs

Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies

Hunting for the neighborhoods of enigmatic, fast radio bursts (FRBs), astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope tracked four of them to the spiral arms of the four distant galaxies shown in the image. The bursts are catalogued as FRB 190714, at top left; FRB 191001, at top...

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Mar 28, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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