The surprising discovery came from a radio telescope intended to look back 13 billion years to the first formation of stars and galaxies in our universe.

“Back in 2013 we turned on this new radio telescope called the Murchison Widefield Array … pretty quickly we found signals that clearly weren’t astronomical,” Curtin University astrophysicist Steven Tingay said.

And after a little bit of work, we tracked down the fact that they were due to objects in space, reflecting FM transmissions from radio stations on Earth.

roughbarked said:

The surprising discovery came from a radio telescope intended to look back 13 billion years to the first formation of stars and galaxies in our universe.

“Back in 2013 we turned on this new radio telescope called the Murchison Widefield Array … pretty quickly we found signals that clearly weren’t astronomical,” Curtin University astrophysicist Steven Tingay said.

And after a little bit of work, we tracked down the fact that they were due to objects in space, reflecting FM transmissions from radio stations on Earth.

could be a very educational initiation into astronomy, tracking space junk, it’s my eyes and ears up there those satellites, my we/us ears and eyes, I will need those eyes and ears to fight a war