06 August 2021
Surprising new finds as ASKAP surveys the skies
... are not sure where the wind is coming from or why it is so tangled. Or indeed what is causing the streams of radio emission. “It will probably take many more observations and modeling before we understand any of these things,” Norris says...
29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
... Last month, a team of astronomers using the Parkes Radio Telescope, published research claiming the new detection of an FRB...that the observed radio emission is instead due to Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) activity and that the emission and host galaxy...
05 September 2016
Surprises for Jupiter as Juno sends back its first images
...’t enough to satisfy curious observers, then you can also listen to Jupiter too, or rather listen to its radio emissions. The radio/plasma wave experiment (Waves) was also fired up to record ghostly-sounding transmissions emanating from above the...
01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
... programmes, such as the Million-channel ExtraTerrestrial Assay (META) programme and SERENDIP (Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations) plus offshoots of this experiment, have continued to search the...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... to the statistics, there was a 4.3-fold increase in the likelihood of a stranding on days with high levels of 2800 MHz radio emission. “We were really surprised by our results,” says Granger. “Strandings were not correlated with geomagnetic activity...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... fourth lunar mission, Chang’e 4, has been repurposed as a radio telescope for a novel Dutch/Chinese collaboration. Meaning "magpie bridge"... a ground-based facility to search for low-frequency radio emissions from the early Universe. But it hasn’t all...
