19 October 2016
Success for TGO orbit insertion and its looking good for Schiaparelli too
...hopefully being successful. Scientists using the the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India and a fleet of NASA and... keenly to Schiaparelli’s on-board UHF (ultra-high frequency) radio that it is using to transmit signals during the entry,...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... which drift with the winds. Following the characterisation of gravitational waves by the eli’Sa mission in the 2030s, radio telescopes scrutinise the depths of our universe in order to understand the nature of the shock waves coming probably from...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He specialises in radio astronomy and spent two years at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. His main scientific interest is galaxy evolution, particularly galaxies which...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... the cosmic background is less intrusive. The devices used (mostly in America, Australia and Europe) were giant radio telescopes; the preferred targets were solar-type stars within our galaxy. Rapid technological development made it possible...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
..., the intensity of metabolism grows, leading to subsequent intensifications of metabolism. The microquasar SS433, captured by the VLA radio telescope. Do its emissions contain musical scales? In my view, the so-called ‘meaning of life’ has to do with...
22 December 2015
Magnetic fields around protostar gives a new twist on star formation
... onto the growing star. Using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to produce images with unprecedented detail, a team of researchers have measured the polarisation (alignment...
