Parkes 'perytons' traced to a microwave oven
- When
- Where
- Parkes, Australia
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- 3 public sources
Astronomers led by Emily Petroff showed that 'perytons', puzzling radio bursts seen for years at the Parkes radio telescope, came from staff opening a microwave oven door before it finished. Press coverage framed it as an alien-signal mystery, which the researchers said it never was.
Sources
- FirsthandHow we found the source of the mystery signals at The Dish (opens in a new tab)
- PressIt's the microwave: how astronomers discovered source of mysterious radio signals (opens in a new tab)
- OtherIdentifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope (Petroff et al.) (opens in a new tab)