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New fast radio burst detector could sift through 'a whole beach of sand' to solve big cosmic mystery

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The Commensal Realtime ASKAP Fast Transient Coherent, or CRACO , was designed to rapidly detect fast radio bursts (FRBs) and other transient phenomena.

FRBs are sporadic, intense flashes of radio wave energy that can be brighter than entire galaxies.

In just thousandths of a second , an FRB can emit as much energy as the sun does over three days , typically at a radio frequency of about 1,400 hertz.

The system processes about 100 billion pixels per second , scanning the sky in search of fleeting cosmic signals.

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