Study Says Blast Of Radio Waves Came From Outside Our Galaxy

This is a report from NPR, which in my book is still respectable and legitimate. Here's a short version of what they discovered...

Calling fast radio bursts "tantalizing mysteries of the radio sky," the more than 30 researchers who took part in the study say they found last May's FRB "during a campaign to re-observe known FRB fields." But while the scientists note that the recent FRB was detected close to a previously discovered phenomenon, they concluded that the two are "distinct objects." "This is a major breakthrough," Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University tells New Scientist. Lorimer was part of the team that uncovered the 2007 signal. He also argued that it came from far beyond our galaxy.

Time to send someone out on a five year mission to explore strange new worlds and galaxies--to boldly go where no man has gone before!