For the first time a team of scientists has tracked
down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), confirming that these short but
spectacular flashes of radio waves originate in the distant universe.The
breakthrough, published today in the journal Nature , was made using CSIRO
radio telescopes in eastern Australia and the National Astronomical Observatory
of Japan’s Subaru telescope in Hawaii. “Our discovery opens the way to working
out what makes these bursts,” Dr Simon Johnston, Head of Astrophysics at CSIRO
and a member of the research team said. FRBs emit as much energy in one
millisecond as the sun emits in 10,000 years, but the physical phenomenon that
causes them is unknown. Feb.25 http://goo.gl/K3kiuz
A fast
radio burst (FRB) is a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon manifested as a
transient radio pulse lasting only a few milliseconds. FRBs show a
frequency-dependent dispersion consistent with propagation through an ionized
plasma. As of February 2016 seventeen bursts have been detected,all but one by
the Parkes radio telescope. The Parkes telescope detected the new FRB 150418 on
18 April 2015 at UT 04h29m [1]. A chart
for the discovery at Parkes, Australia is shown here. Notice that a Venus-Saturn-Neptune T-square
straddles the meridian.
In the past few years
since Neptune has been in Pisces, we are seeing a proliferation of images unlike at any other time in history. With their mobile phones everyone now is a
photographer. As the images flood in, how can we make sense of them? This is
where Saturn in Sagittarius comes in. Among its many associations, Saturn as an
archetype correlates with structure, particularly the structure of
consciousness itself; Sagittarius is the sign of cosmology, philosophy, and
meaning. On the one hand, this combination can be the careful and disciplined
(Saturn) search for meaning.
When Saturn in Sagittarius
is engaged with consciously,there is a patient working through of the
images encountered
on our adventures, inside and out. We become strong and well-boundaried
travelers who can journey thoughtfully and groundedly with the figures of our
dreams and screens. Less consciously, Saturn in Sagittarius can describe how
rigid belief structures and cosmologies — truths with a capital “T” — gobble up
images and convert them to predetermined meanings. In place of the explorer, we
find the believer, the crusader, the consumer — guided by the heavy hand of
narcissistic, capitalist, or fundamentalist logics, and threatened by the
possibility of dissolution in the sea of images. This defensive approach to the
image seeks to freeze-frame the image, determine exactly what it means and exactly
where it belongs, and (where possible) to crop it to fit into existing
structures of meaning, safe and secure. [2]
To
understand the meaning of the T-square all we need to do is to simply think of
the foregoing in connection with Venus – the planet of love and relationships.
Have we allowed our concept of love to be defined by the fundamentalist logic
of some religion or belief system or are we ready to let the dissolving power
of Neptune work on those fossilized ideas?
[2] Saturn
square Neptune Navigating an Ocean of Images by Jason Holley
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