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▲ vegnus a day ago

Radio... Live transmission?

▲ceejayoz a day ago | parent | next [-]

I mean, yes. Every star does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radio_emission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_telescope

▲vegnus a day ago | parent | next [-]

Sorry I was making a dumb joke about a song

▲ceejayoz a day ago | parent [-]

Ah, sorry. I can't hear song lyrics, so those tend to be lost on me!

▲rtkwe a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes but repeated evenly spaced pulses are special and limited to a special subset of stars caller pulsars. The sun is mostly wideband radio noise where the article is talking about distinct regular pulses which are rarer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar

▲y-curious a day ago | parent | prev [-]

You responded to a “joke” but hey this is cool new info for me

▲ErroneousBosh a day ago | parent [-]

If you have satellite TV you already have a solar radiotelescope.

Measure the voltage on the AGC line in the tuner and you'll see a peak as the sun passes the azimuth of the dish. That's it picking up 10GHz solar radiation, and turning its gain down to compensate for the background noise.

▲AstroNutt a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I got it! :) There is no Joy in this HN Division.

▲TZubiri 18 hours ago | parent [-]

HN is dead, we need a new order in here