[from gizmodo]
NASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space, Origin Unknown
* Call Dr Arroway, because NASA has detected
a deep space sound that defies belief or any
explanation. They don't have a single clue about
its origin, according to Alan Kogut from the Goddard Space Center:
The universe really threw us a curve. Instead
of the faint signal we hoped to find, here was
this booming noise six times louder than anyone had predicted.
According to NASA, "the source of this cosmic
radio background remains a mystery". It's not
primordial stars, it's not any known radio
source, and in fact, the problem here is that
there is "not enough radio galaxies to account
for the signal". In other words, nothing in the
known cosmos is capable of producing this
deafening sound. University of Maryland at
College Park's Dale Fixsenpart of NASA's ARCADE
team says, that to get this kind of signal,
"you'd have to pack [radio galaxies] into the
universe like sardines. There wouldn't be any
space left between one galaxy and the next". So
in more scientific terms: They don't have a
flying frak about what the hell this may be.
* The sound has been detected by ARCADE, a
balloon-borne probe which is chilled to 2.7
degrees above absolute zero. The instrument
itself is inside a tank of 500 gallons of liquid
helium to reach that temperature, which is the
same temperature as the cosmic microwave
background radiation. Needless to say, plugging
into this completely unexpected and mysterious
alien iPod playlist has made scientists at the
Goddard Space Flight Center more excited than
Jason Chen at the Las Vegas' Adult Entertainment Expo.
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