June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... a lot of different strategies”. The Breakthrough Listen team structures their searches abductively to hedge their bets. Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. Frank Drake, an astronomer who used the Green Bank...
10 July 2020
An unexpected class of 'odd' circular objects found by astronomers
... on - all of these appear as round objects on the sky when looked at with a radio telescope. Circular features can also arise from imaging artefacts, either when a telescope has not been calibrated properly or if the images have not been...
29 May 2020
Cosmic bursts solve Universe's 'missing matter' problem
... have had more success thanks to the resolving power of CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope, which has a wide field of view about 60 times the size of the full Moon. "This means that...
01 October 2019
An Introduction to Radio Astronomy (4th Ed)
... under development, but its contents have a far wider remit as suggested by the photo of China’s FAST radio telescope (the world’s largest dish) on the back cover. As one would expect from such a tome, it is replete with ...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... day eventually span a million square metres across South Africa and Australia to create the world’s largest radio telescope. “Listen and MeerKAT are developing next-generation technology and techniques that will ultimately lead to proposals...
07 October 2020
Chinese company seeks approval to launch nearly 13,000 satellites
... in astronomy,” said the SpaceX founder. A sentiment not shared by the SKAO study, which noted that for radio telescopes in general and for SKA in particular, “this is not the case.” However, the SKAO say they want...
