A photo from open sources Australian astronomers back in 1998 They discovered very strange signals, the so-called peritons, the origin of which remained for the scientists of the department astrophysicists have been a complete mystery for almost seventeen years. And the other day they solved this “terrible secret.”
At first, astronomers thought that mysterious radio signals, may come from the upper atmosphere with lightning strikes, because the instruments for some reason showed that these peritons of the local origin, that is, their source was in the radius of one kilometers from the telescope. Then various hypotheses were put forward – from simple to mystical.
In total, scientists spent on solving this mystery seventeen years. At the beginning of this year, they installed a new receiver, who could more accurately follow any, even the slightest changes in the air. It was this receiver that “found” the signal 2.4 gigahertz frequency, very characteristic for microwave operation ovens. However, scientists have found that the microwave does not emit peritons, so at first they excluded it from possible mysterious radio sources.
And in vain: further research and to some extent fortunate event finally revealed a secret to scientists origin of peritons. Still, their source turned out to be the microwave that was in the kitchen of the Parks Observatory for the most urgent needs of employees to warm up their breakfasts and lunches. The microwave turned out to be emitting mysterious radio waves only at the moment when she was already finishing her work, and one of the workers opened her door.
As noted by the head of the department of Australian astrophysicists Simon Johnson, it was seventeen years ago and was installed in observatory microwave however who could have suggested that mysterious waves appearing on the air periodically are associated with this insignificant event?
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