The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array) radio telescope, located in theChilean Andes, has long been a key ...
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array with vast, cosmic bubbles of ...
Constructed within a natural sinkhole in Puerto Rico, the 305-meter-wide Arecibo Telescope played a part in numerous discoveries, including the first detection of an exoplanet. It was the largest ...
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the "major item of equipment" phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night), a ...
Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...
At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of ...
The New Horizons spacecraft has a new “audience” for the electronic signals it beams back to Earth. In a successful September demonstration of its growing capabilities, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) ...
A newly discovered object, ASKAP J1935+2148, emits radio waves with an unusually long cycle. This object shows three different patterns of radio wave emissions. It's likely a neutron star, but a white ...