Describing FAST as the “best demonstration of soft power”, Kulkarni said findings made by international researchers using the telescope would always acknowledge China, and he hoped Beijing ...

A 14-year-old middle school student from Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province, built a Newtonian telescope from discarded plastic pipes, parts of a drum set, and other materials, all for just ...

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, rests in a natural sinkhole in mountainous Guizhou province in southwestern China. Unlike most telescopes, it isn’t steerable.

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) at 10 times their typical efficiency. By sifting through billions of ...

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24 (Xinhua) -- China's Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite has, for the first time in human history, detected soft X-ray signals from an explosion in the early universe, opening a new window ...

An optional polar scope is also available for fast and accurate polar alignment. The EQ-5 is a highly capable portable mount and is easily capable of holding most small telescope tubes up to ...

Researchers utilized a fast radio burst-hunting machine called CHIME, or the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment radio telescope, to uncover both bursts. The instrument has enabled the ...

Abstract: Future large arrays of telescopes, used as intensity interferometers, can be used to image the surfaces of stars with unprecedented angular resolution. Fast-rotating, hot stars are ...

"These results show that a substantial fraction of FXRTs (fast X-ray transients) may be associated with GRBs and that sensitive ... Provided by Xinhua This image shows a burst, designated as EP240315a ...