Radio Astronomy
A Jodrell Odyssey – Part 2 – The Observatory
Caption: The original Jodrell Bank Control Desk with view of the Lovell telescope. Credit: Anthony Holloway. Last week we took…
Researchers Send Mars Some Radar Love
A radar map of Mars' major volcanic regions created by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (John Harmon et al.,…
Sir Bernard Lovell, 1913 to 2012
Caption: Sir Bernard Lovell. Credit: Jodrell Bank, University of Manchester Sir Bernard Lovell OBE FRS, Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy,…
Is It Time to Return to the Moon?
Humans haven't set foot on the Moon -- or any other world outside of our own, for that matter --…
Galactic Close Call Leaves a Bridge of Gas
[/caption] An ancient passing between two nearby galaxies appears to have left the participants connected by a tenuous "bridge" of…
Speca – An Intriguing Look Into The Beginning Of A Black Hole Jet
[/caption] Its name is SPECA - a Spiral-host Episodic radio galaxy tracing Cluster Accretion. That's certainly a mouthful of words…
35 Years Later, the ‘Wow!’ Signal Still Tantalizes
Since the SETI program first began searching for possible alien radio signals a few decades ago, there have been many…
The Milky Way’s Magnetic Personality
[/caption] Recently we took a look at a very unusual type of map - the Faraday Sky. Now an international…
Recycling Pulsars – The Millisecond Matters…
[/caption] It's a millisecond pulsar... a rapidly rotating neutron star and it's about to reach the end of its mass…
Students Discover Millisecond Pulsar, Help in the Search for Gravitational Waves
[/caption] A special project to search for pulsars has bagged the first student discovery of a millisecond pulsar – a…