{"id":118766,"date":"2025-05-21T03:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118766\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T03:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:36:17","slug":"space-mystery-as-never-before-seen-pulsing-signal-detected-from-inside-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118766\/","title":{"rendered":"Space mystery as never before seen ‘pulsing’ signal detected from inside our galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have detected a mysterious pulsing signal from a star within our galaxy that has left experts baffled.<\/p>\n

The unexplained pulses were first spotted on 14 May, 2023, by retired Nasa scientist Richard Stanton whilst observing a sun-like star called HD 89389.<\/p>\n

Located approximately 100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, the star has been observed emitting the unusual signal on three separate occasions since its initial discovery.<\/p>\n

The signal has several unique characteristics that have puzzled scientists.<\/p>\n

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Scientists have detected a mysterious pulsing signal from a star within our own galaxy that has left experts baffled<\/p>\n

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It consists of two fast, identical pulses occurring 4.4 seconds apart, with a distinctive “brighter-fainter-brighter” pattern that makes the star “partially disappear in a tenth of a second”.<\/p>\n

Stanton noted: “In over 1,500 hours of searching, no single pulse resembling these has ever been detected.”<\/p>\n

The fine structure of light between the peaks of the first pulse repeats almost exactly in the second pulse, a behaviour that scientists cannot currently explain.<\/p>\n

Dr Stanton, a veteran of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on the Voyager missions, has been conducting his own search for extraterrestrial intelligence from Big Bear, California.<\/p>\n

\"SETI<\/p>\n

The SETI project started out of the the Greenbank Observatory in West Bank, Virginia, more than 60 years ago<\/p>\n

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Unlike traditional SETI surveys that use radio antennas, Stanton looks for pulses of light that might indicate laser communications from advanced civilisations.<\/p>\n

Stanton said: “None of these explanations are really satisfying at this point. Until we learn more, we can’t even say whether or not extraterrestrials are involved!”<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time such mysterious signals have been detected.<\/p>\n

In 2019, a similar pair of pulses was observed around sun-like star HD 217014, about 50.6 light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n

\"Asteroid\"\/<\/p>\n

Scientists are considering several natural explanations, including atmospheric refraction, starlight diffraction by a distant cosmic object, partial eclipses caused by satellites or asteroids, or even gravitational waves<\/p>\n

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Scientists are considering several natural explanations, including atmospheric refraction, starlight diffraction by a distant cosmic object, partial eclipses caused by satellites or asteroids, or even gravitational waves.<\/p>\n

Stanton spent around 1,500 hours comparing the signals to everything from planes to lightning or meteors.<\/p>\n

Despite this, he found no match for these unusual pulses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists have detected a mysterious pulsing signal from a star within our galaxy that has left experts baffled.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,512,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-118766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-sgg","10":"tag-space","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114543734565214702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}