The radio source belongs to a new class of celestial entities, called long-period radio transients.

A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can ...

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Russia’s war has left many of Ukraine’s world-class observatories in ruins—but the besieged nation’s astronomers already have plans to rebuild and recover ...

NASA scientists are currently working on plans to build a giant radio telescope in a nearly mile-wide crater on the "dark side" of the moon. If approved, it could be constructed as early as the 2030s ...

Astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in collaboration with international teams, have made a startling discovery about a new type of cosmic phenomenon. The ...

The York County Astronomical Society will have a public event Saturday, Aug. 30, at their observatory located at John Rudy County Park in East Manchester Township. From noon to 3 p.m., society member ...

The deployment of SDR technology on satellites offers unprecedented flexibility and adaptability for radio astronomy. Unlike traditional fixed-function hardware, SDRs can be reprogrammed and ...

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much larger singular radio ...

For radio astronomy, things get even better during the lunar night, when the sun drops beneath the horizon and is blocked by the moon’s mass. For up to 14 Earth-days at a time, a spot on the moon’s ...

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