31 January 2020
Einsteins prediction of 'draggable' space-time confirmed by stellar binary system
... Bailes – director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) – pointed the CSIRO Parkes 64-metre radio telescope at a pair of incredibly dense objects that later became known as the ‘PSR J1141-6545’ system. This system...
26 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
...the last five years, Listen has massively increased the scope of radio (as well as optical) searches, and has developed technology, deployed at giant radio telescopes on three continents, that enables coverage of an unprecedented range of frequencies...
09 November 2020
More woe for Arecibo as a second cable breaks causing more damage
... for the famed Arecibo Observatory as a second cable has snapped, further damaging the powerful but unlucky radio telescope. Nestled in the Puerto Rican mountains, the Arecibo Observatory has been used by scientists around the world...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
...visited the far side of the Moon,” he says. “Astronomers want to set up radio telescopes there because it is shaded from Earth’s radio pollution. Building a telescope, perhaps using innovative techniques like 3D printing, would enable us to look much...
20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
...eventually turn into planets. The image captured by the ALMA radio telescope in Chile is the first clear image of an accretion ... its rotating accretion disk. ALMA, the most expensive radio telescope ever built, was completed only four years ago, and...
03 January 2021
Space Has No Frontie
...for the 250-ft radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire which bears his name. Indeed, the telescope was rushed into ... of the Garden” (the 40-acre arboretum adjacent to the telescope). An interesting aside is a commentary on Lovell’s involvement in...
