NASA’s Long-Silent Relay 2 Satellite Stuns Scientists With Flash Signal After 60 Years
A sudden, blindingly bright radio flash from deep space has turned heads—and not from a galaxy far away, but from a satellite humanity had all but forgotten. NASA’s Relay 2, launched in the mid-60s and silent for decades, just made an unexpected comeback. The burst, picked up by Australian astronomers on June 13, lasted less than 30 nanoseconds. But in that tiny blink, it shone brighter than anything else in…