Radio Astronomy
Newly Discovered Fast Radio Bursts May be Colliding Neutron Stars
The Universe is sizzling with undiscovered phenomena. Only last month astronomers heard four unexpected bumps in the night. These Fast…
Astronomers Spy Early Galaxies Caught In A Cosmic Spiderweb
Once upon a time, when the Universe was just about three billion years old, galaxies started to form. Now astronomers…
Earth-Passing Asteroid is “An Entirely New Beast”
On the last day of May 2013 asteroid 1998 QE2 passed relatively closely by our planet, coming within 6 million kilometers...…
Stacking Galactic Signals Reveals A Clearer Universe
Very similar to stacking astronomy images to achieve a better picture, researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research…
ALMA and the Comet Factory
"Ooompah, loompah, roopity rust... ALMA finds comets hiding in dust." According to many studies over recent years, astronomers are aware…
Podcast: The Arecibo Observatory
The mighty Arecibo Radio Observatory is one of the most powerful radio telescopes ever built – it’s certainly the larger…
Hydrogen Clouds Discovered Between Andromeda And Triangulum Galaxies
Score another point for the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in…
The Curious Channel 37 — Must-see TV For Radio Astronomy
Thanks to Channel 37, radio astronomers keep tabs on everything from the Sun to pulsars to the lonely spaces between…
Radio Observatory Moves to a Shopping Mall
How’s this for bringing science to the public? This weekend, the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden will be moving their…
Fast Working ALMA Resolves Star-Forming Galaxies
In a scenario where millions of years are considered a short period of time, hours are barely a blink of…