Less than 1% of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...
Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
Black holes spew out powerful jets that span millions of light-years – we’re trying to understand their whole life cycle
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it’s called ...
Rare galaxy revealed in ‘better than expected’ first image from billion-dollar SKA telescope in WA’s Murchison
The first image captured by the unfinished SKA-Low radio telescope in WA’s Murchison region has revealed a rare galaxy with a ...
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Thirty years of the Square Kilometre Array: here’s what the world’s largest radio telescope project has achieved so far
When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and ...
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Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio signal that repeats every 2 hours
The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...
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Probing the formation of megaparsec-scale giant radio galaxies
Dynamical insights from magnetohydrodynamic simulations First Author: Gourab GiriAuthors: Joydeep Bagchi, Kshitij Thorat, ...
Astronomers Just Traced Mysterious Radio Pulses to an Unusual Star Duo
Astronomers have finally traced mysterious radio pulses in the Milky Way to a unique cosmic duo—a red dwarf and a white dwarf ...
Accidental astronomical discoveries made by non-astronomers
The accidental second discovery was made in the 1960s. At the time NASA was running Project Echo. It involved putting large ...
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Entwined dwarf stars reveal their location thanks to repeated radio bursts
A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours. Their findings means we know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such ...
Find out how radio astronomers contribute in mapping the universe
Radio astronomers can study emissions from gas giant planets, blasts from the hearts of galaxies, or even precisely ticking ...