Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas, one located on Changbai Mountains, Jilin province, and the other in Shigatse, Xizang autonomous region, have been put into operation. The Shanghai ...
Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...
Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...