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More mysterious extragalactic signals detected

A never-before-seen twin fast radio burst may help narrow the search for the source

Parkes radio telescope

CAUGHT IN THE ACT  Five more fast radio bursts have been detected at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, shown here.

David McClenaghan, CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) 

By Christopher Crockett

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