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The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope will be installed both in Australia and South Africa, project managers announce. This will be the most sensitive radio installation ever developed, and will be used to investigate the Universe in more detail than ever before.
The announcement was made yesterday, May 2... |
26 May 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Astronomers in Australia and South Korea recently managed to link five individual radio telescopes, producing a single, massive observatory, some 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across.
The tool works through interferometry, a process that enables multiple telescopes to be networked together. When properly adjusted, ... |
3 April 2012
09:28 GMT |
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This Saturday, on March 31, officials gathered in New Mexico, the United States, and witnessed the renaming ceremony for the iconic Very Large Array (VLA), the largest radio observatory in the world. The installation has now been named after the founder of radio astronomy, and is known officially as the Karl G. Jans... |
2 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is the most advanced and complex radio telescope ever planned and developed. The installation features in excess of 20,000 radio antennas, spread out over 48 listening stations throughout Europe. This telescope is bound to begin scientific observations soon.
All the antennas that make... |
30 January 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Black holes are extremely fascinating structures, and they've captured the imagination of astronomers for a wider variety of reasons. This is why a new meeting is taking place this week, where experts want to establish what is required in order for us to become able to photograph black holes directly.
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19 January 2012
02:43 GMT |
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Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) praise the opening of the world's most advanced radio observatory for scientific studies. Though not yet completed, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is already surpassing any other similar instrument.
At this point, o... |
4 October 2011
03:37 GMT |
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Earlier today, officials from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is finally opened for business, after many years of construction. ESO also released a number of images showing the telescope and its surroundings.
Located 5,000 meters (16,40... |
3 October 2011
10:58 GMT |
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After numerous delays and setbacks, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) finally managed to launch a complex radio telescope into planetary orbit. The event took place on Monday, July 18.The Spektr-R observatory is meant to conduct studies of the Universe's most interesting and obscure objects, including... |
19 July 2011
03:01 GMT |
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By analyzing the chemical signature of molecules such as carbon monoxide, experts at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) were recently able to confirm the existence of a new spiral arm in our galaxy, the Milky Way.The arm is in fact an extension, located at the far end of the Scutum-Centaurus Arm. T... |
14 June 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Using several ground- and space-based telescopes, astronauts were recently able to capture the most impressive view ever of the supermassive black hole that powers up the galaxy Centaurus A.
Also known as NGC 5128, the prominent space structure is located in the constellation of Centaurus. Estimates on the distanc... |
21 May 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Astronomers believe that they may have developed a new way of searching for extrasolar planets. They believe that massive, Jupiter-class planets may exhibit powerful aurora displays. If that is the case, then the radio waves these light shows produce should be easily distinguishable from Earth.The technique is especi... |
19 April 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that one of the prototype antennas used to test the validity of a massive observatory will be transferred within the United States, and not internationally as it had originally planned. The NSF representatives said that the Harvard-Smithsonian Center f... |
5 April 2011
08:22 GMT |
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Chinese officials announce that the Asian nation will soon begin its own project to hunt down dark energy, the elusive component that makes up more than three quarters of the Universe. The initiative is now only a project on paper, but a test telescope will be built soon enough.
The project is called Tianlai, whic... |
26 March 2011
07:39 GMT |
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European scientists and their collaborators are excited at the fact that the largest radio observatory in the world has just been inaugurated, and snapped its first images. The radio telescope array is nearly 1,000 kilometers wide, and features antennas at a variety of locations throughout Europe. The International L... |
2 February 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Astronomers in the United Kingdom have recently started the e-Merlin telescope array, which is the newest to be opened in the country. As part of the observatory's first light studies, experts were able to study the jet emissions of a supermassive black holes.The jets the team analyzed were coming from the highl... |
22 December 2010
04:26 GMT |
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A new collaboration between astronomical institutions in New Zealand and Australia sees the creation of one of the largest interferometry-based radio telescopes in the world. No less than six facilities across the two countries signed a cooperation agreement, which essentially links these individual stations into a s... |
27 May 2010
10:08 GMT |
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When it comes to answering questions related to how stars are formed, astronomers don't yet have the full answer. Naturally, they do know how things go generally, but the details of these remarkably-intricate processes still elude them. Now, thanks to a new set of observations conducted using an advanced Austral... |
5 May 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Between Wednesday, November 18, and Thursday, November 19, more than 35 radio telescopes around the world will take part in the largest effort ever of creating a sky grid. This system of reference will allow astronomers to better detect the position of various celestial objects, relative to the position of the Earth.... |
17 November 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Massive stars are giants several hundred times the mass of our Sun, which have the ability to form neutron stars and black holes at the end of their burning cycle. They are a rare occurrence in the Universe, so the processes involved in their birth sequences have been very little understood until now. With the help o... |
17 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Astronomers working on radio observatories in the United States are, at this point having a field day. Most television networks have moved to all-digital signals this June, and so a significant portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, on which they sent their signals before, has now been cleared of “chatter&rdq... |
6 November 2009
21:51 GMT |
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