Radio Astronomy
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…
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…
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…
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.,…
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…
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…
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…
Iconic Telescope Array Gets a New Name
[/caption] The pop culture-rich Very Large Array has been updated with state-of-the-art technology and to befit the VLA’s new capabilities,…
Mapping The Milky Way’s Magnetic Fields – The Faraday Sky
[/caption] Kudos to the scientists at the Max Planck Institut and an international team of radio astronomers for an incredibly…