Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...
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 ...
“This is the first fast radio burst (FRB) found outside a dead galaxy and is farther from its associated galaxy than any ...
Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...
Unprecedented discovery of fast radio bursts challenges existing theories. Astronomers detect repeated signals from an ...
The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...
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 ...
North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...
Radio waves have been detected from what appears to be a pulsar, with just one problem – it‘s spinning thousands of times ...
A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...