| ▲ | ceejayoz a day ago |
| I mean, yes. Every star does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radio_emission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_telescope |
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| ▲ | vegnus a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sorry I was making a dumb joke about a song |
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| ▲ | ceejayoz a day ago | parent [-] | | Ah, sorry. I can't hear song lyrics, so those tend to be lost on me! |
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| ▲ | 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 |
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| ▲ | y-curious a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You responded to a “joke” but hey this is cool new info for me |
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| ▲ | 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. |
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