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Great Mysteries of Outer Space: Fast Radio Bursts
In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...
Green Bank: the quietest town in America
Green Bank, West Virginia, a town in America that houses the biggest telescope in the world, and how the town needs to be ...
SETI2 年
Project Ozma
In 1960, radio astronomer Frank D. Drake, then at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, carried out humanity's first modern attempt to detect interstellar radio ...
Phys.org4 年
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory ... NRAO is funded by the National Science Foundation and operates in Green Bank, West Virginia, Socorro, New Mexico, Tucson, Arizona and Santiago ...
This town has no cell service, so the ‘electrosensitive’ have made it home
It’s now home to the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Radio Telescope, the largest steerable telescope in the world at 7,600 metric ...
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Radio telescope detects molecules that store high amounts of carbon in cosmic cloud
Astronomers used the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope to detect pyrene in ... in space and the largest ever identified through radio astronomy. To detect pyrene in space using radio telescopes ...
Hackaday1 年
The Ultimate US Astronomy Roadtrip
to the Green Bank National Radio Observatory in West Virginia, home of Earth’s largest fully-steerable radio telescope, each site has incredibly rich history.
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Astronomers thought they understood fast radio bursts. A recent one calls that into question.
( Nanowerk News) Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to ...