Radio Astronomy
First-Ever High Resolution Radio Images of Supernova 1987A
On February 23, 1987, the brightest extragalactic supernova in history was seen from Earth. Now 26 years later, astronomers have…
A Radio Astronomer’s Paradise
Last month a dozen journalists from around North America were guests of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and got to…
LOFAR Captures Giant Galaxy
Our Universe is full of surprises. Sometimes those surprises come in packages so overwhelmingly huge that it's almost impossible for…
Close Passing Asteroid 2013 ET Gets Its Picture Taken
Another space rock sat pretty for NASA's big dish photographer. The 70-meter (230-feet) Goldstone antenna zinged radio waves at 2013 ET on…
ALMA: The View from a Different World
A new film called The View From Mars takes a look ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array), the huge international telescope…
ALMA Eyes Most Distant Star-forming Galaxy
Let's turn down the lights and set the stage... We're moving off through space, looking not only at distant galaxies,…
Pulsar Jackpot Scours Old Data for New Discoveries
Chalk another one up for Citizen Science. Earlier this month, researchers announced the discovery of 24 new pulsars. To date,…
Gigantic Plasma Jets Pour From the Heart of Hercules A
Combined Hubble (optical) and VLA (radio) images show enormous radio jets shooting out from the galaxy Hercules A Talk about…
Huge New ESA Tracking Station is Ready for Duty
Caption: ESA's giant Malargüe tracking station Credits: ESA/S. Marti To keep in contact with an ever growing armada of spacecraft…
36-Dish Australian Telescope Array Opens for Business
Three of 36 antennas of the ASKAP array. Credit: Alexander Cherney The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is now…