Ongoing History of New Music Daily: FM radio from space

Space is a noisy place, especially when it comes to radio signals generated by pulsars, quasars, magnetars, stars, and planets. These are natural phenomena that scientists have been examining for decades.

One of the more recent discoveries is an FM radio signal coming from Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s largest moons. If we could tune it in, it would be at about 740 Mhz, which is below what we have on our FM dial (it starts at 87.9 Mhz and goes to 107.9 Mhz) but right at the end of the FM spectrum in Eastern Europe (65.8 to 74.0 Mhz).

So is there an FM station broadcasting from the orbit of Jupiter? Sadly, no. This is a natural phenomenon called “decametric radio emissions.” it

No aliens. Again. Sorry.

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