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What We Know About Fast Radio Bursts in Space
Earlier this month, astronomers announced that they had detected a repeating fast radio burst, or FRB, from a galaxy only half-a-billion light-years away. That may sound far, but in space terms, that’s closer than any of the previous bursts that have been observed.