| 单词 | radio telescope |
| 例句 | And when, in 1956, an early radio telescope was turned toward Venus, it was discovered to be emitting radio waves as if it were at an extremely high temperature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A radio telescope works more like a light meter than a camera. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Two young Americans, Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin, were examining the sky with a newly constructed and for that time very sensitive radio telescope. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They made a formal recommendation that we organize an international cooperative program, with new and immense radio telescopes, to probe the reaches of deep space for electromagnetic signals making sense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Arecibo Observatory could communicate with an identical radio telescope on a planet 15,000 light-years away, halfway to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, if we knew precisely where to point it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The image is read by the Voyager computers, radioed back across the immense intervening distance of half a billion kilometers to a radio telescope, a ground station on the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes such radio telescopes are connected with telescopes on the other side of the Earth, forming a baseline comparable to the Earth’s diameter—in a certain sense, a telescope as large as the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps our remote descendants will call it the constellation of the radio telescope— although I suspect a million years from now the radio telescope will have become more obsolete than the stone spear is now. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The remnants of that fireball, the cosmic background radiation, emanating from all parts of the sky can be detected by radio telescopes today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One way would be to listen with large radio telescopes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern radio telescopes are exquisitely sensitive; a distant quasar is so faint that its detected radiation amounts perhaps to a quadrillionth of a watt. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the future we may have telescopes in the Earth’s orbit, around toward the other side of the Sun, in effect a radio telescope as large as the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Today we combine a laser and a photocell, or a radar transmitter and a radio telescope, and in this way make active contact by light with distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of different kinds of organic molecules have been found there by radio telescopes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps they will have to wheel the radio telescopes out of the Museum of Ancient Technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If a radio telescope were built on Venus, it could detect the Sun, the Earth and other distant objects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers captured a picture of the hot, shadowy edges of a supermassive black hole. Scientists reveal the first image of a supermassive black hole 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Jodrell Bank, founded in 1945, remains a thing of ethereal beauty and globally esteemed research – its magnificent Lovell telescope, opened in 1957, is still the world's third largest steerable radio telescope. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-26T14:53:45Z It’s just that our radio telescopes, which listen to the skies for signals from alien beings, can’t understand what they’re hearing. ‘Aliens’ Asks: If the Universe Is So Vast, Where Is Everybody? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z The most arduous fight was the one with Sean Bean, on the ladder over the giant radio telescope at the end. Pierce Brosnan on GoldenEye: crazy stunts and thigh-crushings from Xenia Onatopp 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The opening image is the interior of a radio telescope pointed to the stars, which are so bright and clear they seem to flare like miniature high-wattage light bulbs. | 'Nostalgia for the Light': Chile?s Past Is Present in the Desert 2011-03-17T21:58:19Z The Lovell telescope, playing host to Live from Jodrell Bank, was the world's largest steerable dish radio telescope when it was constructed in 1955. The Flaming Lips announce show at Jodrell Bank Observatory 2011-03-07T12:53:38Z Even in 2013, there's something very Doctor Who about a stage that is dwarfed by a gigantic radio telescope. New Order – review 2013-07-08T17:12:39Z As a student, Bell Burnell was put to work analysing data from a new radio telescope. Beautiful Minds and Celebrity Roast 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z The paintings and drawings in “Duality: Art and Science” are clearly handmade, yet are inspired by things glimpsed through machines, notably microscopes and radio telescopes. Review | In the galleries: Science expands nature art, on grand and minuscule scales 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z These intense bursts of radio energy are invisible to the human eye, but show up brightly on radio telescopes. 'Starquakes' could explain mystery signals 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z NSF decided last year not to rebuild the storied radio telescope facility after parts of it collapsed in 2020. News at a glance: China’s S&T clusters, abundant fairy circles, and Arecibo’s next chapter 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The “telescope” the scientists use isn’t really a telescope, but a sort of super-telescope made by combining measurements from several large radio telescopes around the world. First Picture of the Milky Way’s Black Hole 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The signal was picked up by several radio telescopes around the world. Project Sends Earth Test Message from Space 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z By blocking much of the starlight, we transformed the primary mirror into an array of small collectors, allowing Keck to work much like modern radio telescopes that link many smaller antennas together. Rare ‘Pinwheel’ Stars Are a Beautiful Astronomical Puzzle 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z One instrument still on site is a 12-meter radio telescope that was upgraded just this year and had been “working 24/7,” Méndez says. Arecibo Observatory Shuts Down Its Science 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Currently, the next-best radio telescope for pulsar timing is MeerKAT, a collection of 64 dishes in South Africa, which will have its own data added to the IPTA’s current efforts. A Background ‘Hum’ Pervades the Universe. Scientists Are Racing to Find Its Source 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z One such star, a brown dwarf smaller than Jupiter, recently became the coldest star ever to be detected with a radio telescope. Break Out the S’mores: This Star Is Cooler Than a Campfire 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z All these endeavors follow the same basic blueprint: they use radio telescopes to monitor dozens of superpredictable pulsars for years on end to catch tiny variations in their rhythmic spinning. Scientists Thrill at First Hints of Cosmic ‘Hum’ from Giant Gravitational Waves 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z It was early on in the commissioning of the Very Large Array of radio telescopes. Strange Giant Filaments Reveal a Mystery at the Milky Way’s Heart 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z When these brief, powerful blips were first seen in data from radio telescopes, many skeptics suspected they would be traced to mundane, terrestrial electromagnetic interference of one kind or another. Bad Data, Not Aliens, May Be behind UFO Surge, NASA Team Says 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Then-current radio telescopes could detect such emanations out to 25 and 250 light-years away, respectively, a volume of space that encompasses several hundred thousand stars. Is E.T. Eavesdropping On Our Phone Calls? 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Electrons whipping around the giant ring, 18 Jupiter diameters across, emitted radio waves detected by an array of 39 radio telescopes spanning the globe. News at a glance: An ancient Mars river, blood screening rules, and sex-research funds blocked 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Those images, which showed just the darkness of the black hole and a ring of bright material plunging into it, and the new one all arise from observations using multiple radio telescopes worldwide. New image reveals violent events near a supermassive black hole 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z In 2019, astronomers operating a network of radio telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope dazzled the world by producing a radio map of the entity — the first-ever image of a black hole. A Fresh View of an Increasingly Familiar Black Hole 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Researchers at the Atacama Large Millimeter Array — at 15,900 feet, it’s the world’s highest radio telescope — must wear oxygen masks to visit; the Very Large Telescope has a swimming pool. Courting the Sirens of the Southern Sky 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z What an alien detects when pointing a radio telescope at Earth depends on more than just the combined signal strength of all those towers, though. Is E.T. Eavesdropping On Our Phone Calls? 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z This will include small radio telescopes at optimized locations around the world. See the sharpest image yet of a supermassive black hole 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Today’s tip comes from Audrey Toda, who recommends the Stanford Dish trail in Palo Alto, which is named for a large old radio telescope in the Stanford foothills. What Should California’s Official State Food Be? 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Construction has begun on the Square Kilometer Array, which, when finished, will be the world's largest radio telescope. Science News Briefs from around the World: March 2023 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Most radio telescopes require expensive cryogenic cooling to reduce amplifier noise, but Caltech’s engineers have squeezed similar performance out of room-temperature circuits. Giant array of low-cost telescopes could speed hunt for radio bursts, massive black holes 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s technically feasible to build far larger radio telescopes than we have now. Is E.T. Eavesdropping On Our Phone Calls? 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z There was no evidence of gas or dust around the object, and radio telescopes heard nothing when pointed at it. Oumuamua Was a Comet After All, a Study Suggests 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z At Murchison, which is to be the Australian site of the giant Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, she helped to establish what is probably the world’s largest radio-quiet zone, at more than 500 kilometres across. Are Telescopes on the Moon Doomed? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Researchers are objecting to a plan, approved by India’s government this month, to build a railway through the site of one of the world’s largest meter-wave radio telescope arrays. News at a glance: New asteroid hunter, shark hatchery, and a telescope disrupted 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Although on Earth, our radar devices are often handheld, a scaled up, more powerful version—in this case, a massive radio telescope—can send its waves beyond our planet, watching asteroids instead of baseballs. New Space Radar Will Hunt Planet-Threatening Asteroids 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z There are even serious proposals to build huge radio telescopes on the Moon. Is E.T. Eavesdropping On Our Phone Calls? 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z ALMA, one of the world’s biggest radio telescope arrays, is getting hardware and software upgrades to allow it to collect much more data and produce sharper images. News at a glance: Darwin’s letters, antiracism in science, and protecting LGBTQ+ field researchers 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z But the methods could be used on other data, such as a flood of observations from the MeerKAT array of 64 radio telescopes in South Africa, which Breakthrough Listen began using in December. Will an AI Be the First to Discover Alien Life? 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Construction will soon begin on the world’s biggest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory. News at a glance: Snags in emissions monitoring, negotiations on biodiversity, and a drug for sleeping sickness 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The ngRADAR system uses the Green Bank Telescope as a huge transmitting antenna, and it uses the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes spread across the U.S., New Space Radar Will Hunt Planet-Threatening Asteroids 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The modern scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence began in 1959 when astronomers Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison showed that radio transmissions from Earth could be detected by radio telescopes at interstellar distances. Signatures of alien technology could be how humanity first finds extraterrestrial life 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, for decades home to the world’s largest radio telescope, will be a leading research center no more. News at a glance: Climate justice, ethical mask wearers, and CDC under Trump 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z “It is extraordinary—maybe unprecedented—for a radio telescope to stay as productive as it has for so long,” says Frail, who works at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Hopes Fade for Resurrecting Puerto Rico’s Famous Arecibo Telescope 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, for decades the home of the world’s largest radio telescope, will be an astronomical observatory no more. Hopes for rebuilding giant Arecibo telescope appear dead 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Green Bank has a 100-meter-diameter dish—a radio telescope’s equivalent of a mirror—making it the largest steerable antenna on Earth, uniquely suited to this job. New Space Radar Will Hunt Planet-Threatening Asteroids 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The most powerful millimeter-wave radio telescope in the Northern Hemisphere has been completed and was inaugurated last week. News at a glance: AI regulation, renewable energy, and Alzheimer’s therapy 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z This energy blast was what radio telescopes on Earth were picking up. Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Rather than go to the trouble of building radio telescopes with single, massive dishes, it has become easier and more effective to set up arrays of smaller telescopes working in conjunction, he says. Hopes Fade for Resurrecting Puerto Rico’s Famous Arecibo Telescope 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z My colleagues and I have a radio telescope that's going to the Moon on one of the landers in January. Why NASA's moon-bound Artemis 1 mission matters 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Only last spring a promising signal picked up by a giant Chinese radio telescope proved to be electrical interference from the Earth. Frank Drake, Who Led Search for Life on Other Planets, Dies at 92 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Even though neutral hydrogen is the most abundant element in interstellar matter, it was detected first with a radio telescope, not a visible light telescope. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z By the time Schmidt joined them in 1959, an important instrument was revolutionizing astronomy, the radio telescope. Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “I am sorry to see the Arecibo telescope go the way of so many other radio telescopes in the past,” Frail says, “as they all have had to make way for newer, more powerful telescopes.” Hopes Fade for Resurrecting Puerto Rico’s Famous Arecibo Telescope 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z A radio telescope, for instance, will work the same way whether it’s here on Earth or somewhere on the other side of the cosmos. Cultural Bias Distorts the Search for Alien Life 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The UK's largest radio telescope - the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire - is being turned into a light and sound show. Giant Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank to become space light show 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Figure 25.16 Sagittarius A. This image, taken with the Very Large Array of radio telescopes, shows the radio emission from hot, ionized gas in the center of the Milky Way. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Radio waves are much longer than light waves, ranging from centimeters to kilometers, which is why radio telescopes have to be very large. Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Likewise, the NSF’s funding plan will not provide “operational support for current scientific infrastructure” at the Arecibo Observatory, such as its 12-meter radio telescope or its Lidar facility. Hopes Fade for Resurrecting Puerto Rico’s Famous Arecibo Telescope 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The size of the antenna eclipses what was the iconic Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which collapsed ignominiously in December 2020. A Chinese Telescope Did Not Find an Alien Signal. The Search Continues. 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z The soundtrack features recordings from space, including the "sonification" of the radio telescope's own scan of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Giant Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank to become space light show 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Suppose we detect a powerful radio source with a radio telescope. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z That can be a problem, but a radio telescope has key advantages, including the ability to see through interstellar dust that would block radiation with shorter wavelengths. Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Fortunately, there are American researchers who work with Chinese radio telescopes who had insight into what was going on. No, a Chinese telescope didn't just detect aliens. Here's what actually happened 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z What was needed, the assembled group of astronomers, engineers and biologists concluded, was Cyclops, a vast array of radio telescopes with as many as a thousand 100-meter-diameter antennas. A Chinese Telescope Did Not Find an Alien Signal. The Search Continues. 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z To see deeper into the black hole shadow, researchers needed to be able to tune their radio telescopes to shorter wavelengths that could penetrate the haze. The Milky Way’s Black Hole Comes to Light 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Why do infrared or radio telescopes work better? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z That meant radio telescopes could plumb extremely distant regions of the universe. Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Unlike normal radio telescopes, they must be built at high-altitude sites to get above most of the moisture in Earth’s atmosphere. Shadow of Milky Way’s giant black hole revealed by astronomers 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Dr. Drake himself pointed a radio telescope at a pair of stars in 1960 and soon thought he had struck gold, only to find out the signal was a stray radar. A Chinese Telescope Did Not Find an Alien Signal. The Search Continues. 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Today, the collaborative project employs 11 different radio telescopes around the world. The Milky Way’s Black Hole Comes to Light 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It would be a modest step for the same organizations to use or build large radio telescopes and begin intentional transmissions that are much stronger than the signals that leak from Earth today. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Schmidt’s job was to track down some strange objects that were being uncovered by radio telescopes. Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The colorized image unveiled Thursday is from the international consortium behind the Event Horizon Telescope, a collection of eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The radio telescopes all work together to observe the same object, behaving as if they are one giant planet-sized telescope. Scientists capture first image of supermassive black hole in heart of Milky Way 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Half a decade afterward, a few dozen of the astronomers and astrophysicists laboring in this obscure corner of astronomy agreed on the formal goal of building a virtual planet-scale radio telescope to observe that shadow. The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart Has Been Revealed 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Figure 6.18 shows such a radio image of a distant galaxy, where radio telescopes reveal vast jets and complicated regions of radio emissions that are completely invisible in photographs taken with light. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z As pulsars spin, they release a stream of radio waves from their poles — a ‘pulse’ that can be detected using radio telescopes. A Galaxy Is Unmasked as a Pulsar — the Brightest outside the Milky Way 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z But radio telescopes can measure how the intensity of radio emission varies across the sky at many different wavelengths at once, enabling astronomers to construct three-dimensional maps without separate redshift measurements. Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z If a civilization beyond our planet is capable of building a radio telescope to receive our message, it probably knows a thing or two about physics. Researchers Made a New Message for Extraterrestrials 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Koribalski says that other high-resolution radio telescopes around the world will probably soon be pointing towards these objects, particularly once the next generation of these instruments come online in the next few years. Astronomers See a Bizarre Space Circle in Unprecedented Detail 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z This fully steerable radio telescope in West Virginia went into operation in August 2000. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Astronomers across Africa and Europe have reacted with delight to news that Africa’s first millimetre-range radio telescope is to be built. Major African Radio Telescope Will Help to Image Black Holes 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z The image, released last week by South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array, shows a region 25,000 light-years from Earth. News at a glance: Mysterious space filaments, damaged dinosaur tracks, and edible worms 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z "We are now monitoring this object using many different radio telescopes in the hope it switches 'on' again," Anderson said. Scientists amazed by blinking star's 'totally unexpected' behavior 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z But observations using the world’s largest radio telescope are casting doubt on this long gestational period. Stars may form 10 times faster than thought 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z To overcome this difficulty, radio astronomers have learned to sharpen their images by linking two or more radio telescopes together electronically. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z To detect the spiraling pairs, observers train large radio telescopes on dozens of pulsars—collapsed stars emitting radio beams that, as the pulsar spins, appear as pulses with clocklike regularity. More than a virus: Science’s areas to watch in 2022 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z To measure the pulses, Kramer and his colleagues used six large radio telescopes around the globe plus the Very Long Baseline Array, a set of 10 dishes spanning the United States. Double pulsar data helps Einstein’s theory of gravity pass toughest test yet 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Nobody noticed when an Australian radio telescope captured a fleeting explosion of light coming from somewhere far beyond the Milky Way in 2001. Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Are Finally Coming into Focus 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z For gas clouds, the Zeeman splitting occurs in radio wavelengths, so radio telescopes are needed. Stars may form 10 times faster than thought 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Your group should discuss and make a list of all the ways in which an observing session at a large visible- light telescope and a large radio telescope might differ. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Scientists discovered the first FRBs in 2007, and have since turned to powerful radio telescopes to track down the bursts and search for clues on where they originate and how they are produced. A mysterious and powerful radio signal from space is repeating itself 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Now, using the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, an international team has reported the largest set of FRB events ever detected in history. FAST, the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Zooms in on a Furious Cosmic Source 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Using a powerful radio telescope, researchers have now identified multiple stars emitting the telltale activity. ‘Auroral’ Exoplanets Could Help Boost Searches for Alien Life 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z All these devices interfere with the science conducted by the Green Bank Observatory, home to a host of radio telescopes. Book review: The mirage of a town without cellphones 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Using radio telescopes and radio spectrometers, astronomers can measure the abundances of various chemicals in these clouds. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Referring to herself in the third person, she added that Dr. Hewish “had one idea that Jocelyn had wired up the radio telescope wrongly, and it was something to do with that.” Antony Hewish, astronomer who won Nobel Prize for the discovery of pulsars, dies at 97 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Prior to FAST’s mother lode of new events, scientists using other radio telescopes had reported nearly 350 FRBs from this source, which is nestled in a galaxy where lots of young stars are taking shape. FAST, the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Zooms in on a Furious Cosmic Source 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The data from a system of optical, infrared or radio telescopes will be fed to state-of-the-art video cameras linked to software that will filter out objects of interest for the telescope to track. Astronomers Should be Willing to Look Closer at Weird Objects in the Sky 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Finally, the lander will carry a small radio telescope. NASA-funded startups will soon put a fleet of landers on the Moon 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z For example, if an extraterrestrial civilization’s signal is too weak to be detected by our present-day radio telescopes, we will not detect them. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z She helped build the radio telescope, operated the instruments, analyzed the data and identified the first pulsars, for which she was later honored with the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Antony Hewish, astronomer who won Nobel Prize for the discovery of pulsars, dies at 97 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z There is precedent for building a radio telescope in a crater: the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which collapsed due to neglect recently, operated for decades and provided valuable scientific data. Scientists say a telescope on the Moon could advance physics — and they're hoping to build one 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z ELT efforts sink or swim—or if other projects, such as a “next generation” upgrade to the nation’s Very Large Array of radio telescopes or expansions of gravitational-wave observatories, take priority. This Report Could Make or Break the Next 30 Years of U.S. Astronomy 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z For 60 years, scientists have been searching with radio telescopes, listening in for possible signals coming from other civilizations on planets orbiting distant stars. Perspective | Contacting aliens could end all life on earth. Let’s stop trying. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Other radio telescopes being used for such searches include the giant Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, which is the largest steerable radio telescope in the world. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The method has already linked radio telescopes around the globe, effectively creating a single, giant dish powerful enough to image a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. New internet woven from ‘spooky’ quantum links could supercharge science and commerce 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z In the case of radio telescopes, the Moon is an especially tantalizing choice for an observatory. Scientists say a telescope on the Moon could advance physics — and they're hoping to build one 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z A radio telescope in South Africa also contributed to the image, for contrast. NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’ 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The image was taken by a worldwide network of radio telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope in April of 2017. What Do You Call a Bunch of Black Holes: A Crush? A Scream? 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Many astronomers use radio telescopes for space experiments, which work just as well during the daylight hours. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The EHT team announced in April 2019 that it had successfully imaged the shadow of a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy by combining observations from eight different radio telescopes spread across our planet. Quantum Astronomy Could Create Telescopes Hundreds of Kilometers Wide 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Still, the very possibility of putting a radio telescope on the Moon is closer than it has ever been before. Scientists say a telescope on the Moon could advance physics — and they're hoping to build one 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z In 2017, an international collaboration of more than 300 researchers coordinated 11 radio telescopes around the globe to observe the center of M87. Magnetic Field around a Black Hole Mapped for the First Time 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z It was until recently the world’s largest radio telescope and was used to study pulsars, detect gravitational waves, search for neutral hydrogen and detect habitable planets, among other things. Officials seeking answers to Puerto Rico telescope collapse 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Table 6.2 lists some of the major radio telescopes of the world. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The very first radio telescopes on and around the far side of the moon will be simple. Telescopes on Far Side of the Moon Could Illuminate the Cosmic Dark Ages 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z A team led by Sarah Burke-Spolaor of West Virginia University took to the sky with Hubble and the Very Large Array radio telescope in Socorro, New Mexico. Missing: One Black Hole With 10 Billion Solar Masses 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z One of the telescope’s quirks is that the curve of its dish is spherical rather than parabolic like most other radio telescopes. How the famed Arecibo telescope fell—and how it might rise again 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z The skies blazed in shades of lilac and dusky rose, and the rising sun cast a warm glow on a giant radio telescope nestled among the karst mountains near the island’s northern shore. Why the loss of an iconic radio telescope is painfully personal 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z This map shows the distribution of 10 antennas that constitute an array of radio telescopes stretching across the United States and its territories. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The recent excitement began on April 29, 2019, when Breakthrough Listen scientists turned the Parkes radio telescope on Proxima Centauri, to monitor the star for violent flares. Was That a Dropped Call From ET? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z In April, we also got further notice of music of the spheres with the capturing of radio waves by a Canadian radio telescope with the appropriate acronym of CHIME. How Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet turned the sun's radiance into the most moving music 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The spending bill also asks NSF to outline its plans for the site in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, that now holds the remains of a 57-year-old, agency-funded radio telescope that recently collapsed. Massive 2021 U.S. spending bill leaves research advocates hoping for more 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z But it would still be easier than making a big new radio telescope elsewhere. Arecibo’s Collapse Sends Dire Warning to Other Aging Observatories 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z As they improved the images that their new radio telescopes could make, scientists discovered that some radio sources were in the same location as faint blue “stars.” Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Normally, a radio telescope would point at a star or other target for five minutes and then “nod” slightly away from it for five minutes to see if the signal persisted. Was That a Dropped Call From ET? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The enormous Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed unexpectedly Tuesday morning, the National Science Foundation said, like a helpless spent giant in a splash of metal and wire. The Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico Collapses 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century collapsed Tuesday. National Digest: Radio telescope first damaged in August collapses 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Then a main cable broke in early November, leading the National Science Foundation to declare just weeks later that it planned to close the radio telescope because the damage was too great. Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses; many mourning 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z The Askap telescope is one of the precursors to an international project to build the world's largest radio telescope - the Square Kilometre Array, to be located in South Africa and Australia. Australian scientists map millions of galaxies with new telescope 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Researchers saw phosphine's signal in spectrograms from two radio telescopes they used to capture the data, and estimated there were 20 parts per billion of the compound in Venus' clouds. New science tempers hope for life in Venus' clouds — but nothing is ruled out just yet 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z But observations of these beacons are costly and rely on radio telescopes. Precise maps of millions of bright quasars show our place in the cosmos as never before 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The collapse stunned many scientists who had relied on what was until recently the largest radio telescope in the world. National Digest: Radio telescope first damaged in August collapses 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z One of the great icons of human curiosity, the Arecibo radio telescope, is going to be torn down, the National Science Foundation, its owner, announced today. Arecibo Observatory, a Great Eye on the Cosmos, Is Going Dark 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Back in September 2017 the radio telescope took a beating from Hurricane Maria. Arecibo Observatory to Close Its Giant Eye on the Sky 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z The Arecibo telescope, which was built in 1963, was the world’s largest radio telescope for decades and has historical and modern importance in astronomy. Legendary Arecibo Telescope Will Close Forever, And Scientists Are Reeling 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The independent, federally funded agency said it’s too dangerous to keep operating the single dish radio telescope — one of the world’s largest — given the significant damage it recently sustained. Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope to close in blow to science 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The already battered Arecibo Observatory was hit with another blow on 7 November when one of its 12 main support cables snapped and tore through the radio telescope’s main dish. Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by two independent radio telescope arrays in North America. Enigmatic fast radio burst pinned on magnetised dead star 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Detecting the H i 21-cm emission in the spectra of individual galaxies at large distances, such as those involved in Chowdhury and colleagues’ study, is problematic, even with the biggest radio telescopes in the world. Key ingredient of galaxy formation measured 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The last major radio telescope disaster happened in 1988, when a 300-foot-wide antenna at the observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, collapsed one night due to structural failure. Legendary Arecibo Telescope Will Close Forever, And Scientists Are Reeling 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The SKA will investigate radio sources in the sky that radiate at centimetre to metre wavelengths - but it will achieve sensitivities that are far beyond the reach of current radio telescopes. Concern over satellite impact on giant telescope 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z The main collecting dish is among the world’s largest single-dish radio telescopes. Daily briefing: Broken cable smashes main dish at the iconic Arecibo Observatory 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z China’s expanding radio telescope network of tracking and receiving stations will sustain communications between Earth and the probe. Chinese Spacecraft Poised for First Mars Mission 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z A radio telescope called the Square Kilometre Array is currently being designed, and will be the world’s largest. Key ingredient of galaxy formation measured 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Astronomers are baffled about four objects that were spotted in deep space by a massive radio telescopes, reports said. 4 mystery objects spotted in deep space, unlike anything ever seen 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The STARE2 radio telescope is made of low-tech antennas — each consists of a metal pipe with two cake tins attached — at two locations in California and one in Utah. Radio flashes from nearby star offer clues to major astronomy mystery 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Astronomers monitored them for the next year and a half with NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Very Large Array in New Mexico and the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa. Watch This Black Hole Blow Bubbles 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Key to the results was the new MeerKAT radio telescope, an array of 64 antennas located in the Karoo desert in South Africa. A Black Hole’s Boomerangs 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z As president, Dr. Kennedy gave students a standing invitation to join him on his 6:30 a.m. runs to the giant radio telescope known as the Dish in the foothills overlooking the campus. Donald Kennedy, who led Stanford to rising national influence, dies of coronavirus at 88 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z LiveScience.com reported on Thursday that the highly circular objects that appear bright along the edges were discovered when astronomers reviewed archival data from radio telescopes in Australia and India. 4 mystery objects spotted in deep space, unlike anything ever seen 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, astronomers were taking a peek at a bright galaxy near to the center of Norma, a merging galaxy cluster 230 million light-years from Earth. Strange Extragalactic Strands Mystify Astronomers 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z If it gets built, the Lunar Crater Telescope would be the "largest filled-aperture radio telescope in the Solar System," Bandyopadhyay wrote in the proposal. NASA to build massive telescope on far side of the moon 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z We think automatically of large radio telescopes, their concave dishes pointing skyward. What UFOs can tell us about life on Earth 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Want to build the largest radio telescope to fly in space? NASA’s Next Solar Mission Will Use Six Spacecraft to Make One Giant Telescope 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z He and other authors of the paper are also members of the team operating the Event Horizon Telescope, a globe-girding network of radio telescopes that made that first image of a black hole. Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image’s Rings 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Improving on our latest image of the Milky Way will require many more observations and will be facilitated by the next generation of radio telescope arrays capable of VLBI. A New Map of the Milky Way 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The near radio silence is a requirement for those living close to the town’s most prominent and demanding resident, the Green Bank Observatory, home to the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope. No Cell Signal, No Wi-Fi, No Problem. Growing Up Inside America’s ‘Quiet Zone’ 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Astronomers will sweep the entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life for the first time, using 28 giant radio telescopes in an unprecedented hunt for alien civilisations. Astronomers to sweep entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Bakala says a vast array of radio telescopes, like the one used last year to image a black hole for the first time, might be able to detect such a transit. Could a habitable planet orbit a black hole? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Dr. Johnson said there were several space radio telescopes on the drawing boards that could fit the bill. Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image’s Rings 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z “At Green Bank, you have people working with radio telescopes and high-tech machinery, involved in things like pulsar research, while surrounded by a vast expanse of woods and wildlife,” Eichenbaum said. Observatory inspires musical composition by professor 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z “There is a precedence for that situation, namely radio band transmitters used for communication and self-driving cars introduces interference to radio telescopes,” Loeb said. Why SpaceX's plan to put 25,000 satellites in orbit is bad news for astronomers 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The latest plan for a lunar radio telescope, known as the Farside Array, is now being considered by the U.S. decadal survey of astrophysics, a priority setting exercise. This telescope could ‘see’ inside alien worlds for the first time 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z They found evidence for what they call “hidden planets” in the form of gaps in icy debris disks surrounding about 20 stars observed by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array radio telescope in Chile. An Interstellar Comet, in Time for the Holidays 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Serendipity often plays a role: in 1965, Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias feared that pigeon droppings were to blame for the annoying interference that plagued their new radio telescope. What's the point of Nobel prizes? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The Green Bank observatory is home to the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope.Credit: Telescope windfall, genius grants and Arctic ice loss 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The International Pulsar Timing Array is using radio telescopes around the world to monitor the regular emissions from pulsars, looking for distortions that would reveal the passing of these low-frequency gravitational waves. Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z In its first major result, just over a year after its inauguration, South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope has discovered two huge ‘bubbles’ above and below the thick interstellar matter of the Galaxy’s central region. Daily briefing: This is what it takes to stop Ebola 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The basics of radio detection remain the same; many radio telescopes are constructed from simple materials, such as plastic pipes and wire mesh. The quest to unlock the secrets of the baby Universe 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The Green Bank Observatory contains the world’s largest steerable radio telescope. West Virginia editorial roundup 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The observatory includes a 100-meter diameter radio telescope, astronomy and astrophysics instrumentation, office and laboratory buildings, a visitor and education facility and lodging facilities for visiting scientists. West Virginia observatory to continue operations 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z A scientist seeks alien beings after receiving mysterious messages from deep space via radio telescope dishes. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 21 - 27, 2019 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z On Earth, radio telescopes must tussle with signals from terrestrial TV and radio transmitters for clean looks at the sky. Could humanity’s return to the moon spark a new age of lunar telescopes? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Leading the way are radio telescope arrays, which compare signals from multiple antennas to detect variations in the intensity of waves arriving from different directions in the sky. The quest to unlock the secrets of the baby Universe 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The rover will rumble across the craggy and rough surface - featuring a mountain taller than any on earth - to set up a network of radio telescopes with little help from humans. Robots to install telescopes to peer into cosmos from the moon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z They set up a radio telescope survey to look for more I objects. A strange interstellar object is coming to Earth in this excerpt from The Last Astronaut 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Jodrell Bank also hosts the headquarters of the Square Kilometre Array, an international project to create the world's largest radio telescope by linking thousands of dishes and receivers across Africa and Australia. Jodrell Bank gets World Heritage status 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z The second is a billion-dollar class mission to put a basic radio telescope on the surface of the Moon. Could humanity’s return to the moon spark a new age of lunar telescopes? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Nzimande will also guide the construction of South Africa’s part of the Square Kilometre Array, a project to build the world’s largest radio telescope in South Africa and Australia. Science protest, HIV surge and harassment vote 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z “Any time a satellite would pass through the observing beam of a radio telescope, there’s a chance that its transmission might be received and interpreted as a celestial signal,” Hammergren says. SpaceX's Starlink Could Cause Cascades of Space Junk 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The picture was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, a network of radio telescopes operated by a global team of scientists. Humility Is the First Step toward a Healthier World 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z A huge radio telescope is giving scientists an unprecedented view of the 3D structure of lightning, revealing intriguing needle-like tendrils up to 100 metres long. Daily briefing: Is brain death the end? 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z A huge radio telescope is giving scientists an unprecedented view of the 3D structure of lightning. Podcast: Reviving brains, lightning, and spring books 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The world’s first image of a black hole revealed Wednesday was created using data from eight radio telescopes around the world. Black hole named ‘Powehi’ by Hawaii university professor 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The image was produced by the Event Horizon Telescope, a network of 10 radio telescopes spread across the planet and functioning as if it were a single receiver, one tuned to high-frequency radio waves. See a black hole for the first time in a historic image from the Event Horizon Telescope 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps the space agency decided to use the Deep Space Network, an array of radio telescopes located all over the world tasked with beaming and capturing signals from spacecraft. What time is the Super Bowl throughout the Solar System? 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z “These are radio telescope systems that provide the astronomical research community with unique, advanced capabilities for basic research into the nature of the universe and its constituents,” observatory spokesman Dave Finley said. Government Shutdown effects mount as shuttered agencies exhaust workarounds, funding 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The Square Kilometre Array will be the world’s largest radio telescope. Five developments in space, time and fusion 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Russia's only space radio telescope is no longer responding to commands from Earth, officials say. Russia's only space telescope breaks down 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Oftentimes, finding one is just a matter of luck: looking in the right spot at the right time with a radio telescope. Astronomers find another source of repeating radio bursts from outside our galaxy 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The world’s largest radio telescope — China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope — should be fully operational and available to researchers from September. What to expect in 2019: science in the new year 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Nestled amongst the karst mountains of southwestern China lies a gargantuan spherical dish that fills a valley — the world’s single largest radio telescope. China’s place among the stars 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z That event was also observed by a coterie of other instruments — from radio telescopes to space-based gamma-ray observatories and helped to solve a slew of cosmic mysteries. Gravitational-wave astronomers detect hints of largest black-hole merger yet 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z For some years after 1970, West Germany may be expected to have the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world. From the archive 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The city houses the nerve centre for an enormous radio telescope being constructed hundreds of kilometres inland, set to become the most powerful in the world. The cape of change 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Furthermore, new radio telescope observations that peer into the murky hearts of planet-forming disks could also provide more evidence for or against processes like the settling instability, Youdin says. Planet Formation? It's a Drag 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z A proposed upgrade to the Very Large Array, a radio telescope in New Mexico, should be able to spot such hidden debris, perhaps accounting for some of the missing material. Cosmic conundrum: The disks of gas and dust that supposedly form planets don’t seem to have the goods 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z For example, they describe the history of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, funded by the Pentagon’s technical innovation agency — now called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — ostensibly to advance missile defence. The long entanglement of war and astrophysics 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z As a research student in the 1960s, Bell Burnell noticed a mysterious pulsing signal in data from a radio telescope. Hooray for Jocelyn Bell Burnell – the world needs more scientists like her | Susan Watts 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z In South Africa’s central Karoo desert, an international team is building the Square Kilometre Array, a radio telescope whose thousands of dishes will be shared by Australia and Africa. The cape of change 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Its role in the Square Kilometre Array, a project to build the world’s largest radio telescope, partly in South Africa, has bolstered its publications and citation impact in astronomy and astrophysics. South Africa pushes science to improve daily life 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Controllers spent weeks scanning in vain for signals, and in late July, they finally found it by using radio telescopes in Puerto Rico. Satellite rescue mission: this week in tech, 20 years ago 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z The article brought back a memory from my days as an undergraduate assistant working on the 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, W. Va., in 1968. Readers Respond to the April 2018 Issue 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z And while it listens, the third largest radio telescope in the world becomes - for just a few days every summer - a massive, animated art installation. How the Lovell telescope becomes art 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z South Africa unveils huge radio telescope This radio-wave image of the central regions of the Milky Way was unveiled at the opening ceremony of South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope on 13 July. Turtle trouble, fund fraud and India’s escape module 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z This image, based on observations made with South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope, shows the clearest view yet of the central regions of our galaxy.Credit: South Africa celebrates completion of gigantic, super-sensitive telescope 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It includes a radio telescope site in Australia as well as in South Africa. South Africa unveils new telescope aimed at galaxies 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The biggest radio telescope of its kind in the southern hemisphere, MeerKAT looks like a cluster of eggs when you first see it about an hour’s drive outside Carnarvon. South Africa's MeerKAT to help unlock mysteries of universe 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Wormholes might exist naturally in the cosmos; indeed, scientists in Russia are trying to use radio telescopes to detect them. How to build a real time machine 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Some astronomers turned radio telescopes on it just in case it was an alien spaceship, but it was silent. An Alien Visitor Turns Out to Be a Comet 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z SHANGHAI, CHINA—When astronomer Marko Krčo was offered a chance to help commission the world’s largest radio telescope, he didn’t hesitate. With generous funding and top-tier jobs, China seeks to lure science talent from abroad 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z If you built a radio telescope, you should be able to assume that whatever knowledge was necessary for that included math. The researchers who study alien linguistics 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Using radio telescopes, they monitor pulsars inside the Milky Way and look for small variations in their signals caused by the passage of gravitational waves through the galaxy. Here Come the Waves 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Today, when we use our radio telescopes to project messages to other star systems, we do so as humans as a whole. Please, let’s not make space a ‘war-fighting domain’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Using radio telescopes, they monitor pulsars inside the Milky Way and look for small variations in their signals, caused by the passage of gravitational waves through the galaxy. How gravitational waves could solve some of the Universe’s deepest mysteries 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z She will guide the country through projects including the Square Kilometre Array, a multi-million-dollar radio telescope to be built in South Africa and Australia. UK university strike, quark pioneer and the ancient-genome boom 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The budgets for radio telescopes like the ones Vanderlinde and Parsons work with runs in the millions of dollars, so there’s some slack for a few extra thousand bucks. How cryptocurrency mining is hurting astronomers 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Data scientists in South Africa are readying themselves for a flood of information that is due to crash over them when the country’s biggest radio telescope doubles the scale of its operations in March. Deluge of astronomical data will soon hit South Africa 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z When complete, the SKA will be much more sensitive than current radio telescopes that collect electromagnetic signals from space. Astronomers ready to unveil prototype radio dish for landmark observatory 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z To learn more, the team periodically monitored the repeater across several months using two of the world’s largest radio telescopes, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Dead Stars Orbiting Black Holes May Explain Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Arecibo shift A consortium led by the University of Central Florida in Orlando will take over management of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico from 1 April. UK university strike, quark pioneer and the ancient-genome boom 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z But when SETI-minded astronomers targeted the object with two exquisitely sensitive radio telescopes to eavesdrop for any artificial transmissions, they detected nothing. It's Never Aliens--until It Is 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z That will be the world’s largest radio telescope and astronomers are trying to develop the expertise to handle torrents of data ahead of its full opening in 2026. Deluge of astronomical data will soon hit South Africa 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z But when astronomers with the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence aimed their radio telescopes at Tabby's Star, they heard no signs of life. The strangest star in the sky finally has an explanation for its flicker 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z They thought the scene would be perfect — mountains on the side and radio telescopes in the foreground. Roar of a rocket engine, click of a camera shutter — and a far-off photographer hopes for a great shot 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “Green Bank is the most capable radio telescope in the world for conducting these types of observations,” Siemion said. This visitor from beyond our solar system will be probed for signs of life 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Vakoch was not so quick to relinquish the radio telescope to the microscope when it comes to searching for aliens. How will humanity react to alien life? Psychologists have some predictions. 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The agency is working through a similar process to potentially divorce itself from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, home to the world’s premiere single-dish radio telescope, and several other observatories. Arecibo telescope wins reprieve from US government 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z A rudimentary internet connection was restored in late October, taking advantage of public Wi-Fi services—normally the bane of radio telescopes. Giant radio telescope lends a hand in Puerto Rico relief 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z In 2009, a combination of optical and radio telescope observations produced this image of a spiral galaxy and an elliptical galaxy gradually becoming one, 13 million light years from Earth. Spectacular Images Show How Our View of the Universe Has Evolved 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z X-ray and radio telescopes also saw the merger. Gravitational-wave astronomy starts in earnest 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z But radio telescopes are still tracking it to this day, Corsi says. Colliding stars spark rush to solve cosmic mysteries 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The array consists of 10 big radio telescopes located across parts of the Northern Hemisphere, from Hawaii to New England. Astronomers locate distant region of newly forming stars on the far side of the Milky Way 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Opened in 1963, Arecibo is a multipurpose facility that can function as a passive radio telescope for astronomy: It was used in the Nobel Prize–winning discovery of the first binary pulsar in 1974. Hurricane damage threatens Arecibo Observatory’s future 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The research team analyzed observations of NGC 7674, which lies about 400 million light-years from Earth, that were made by the Very Large Array, a network of radio telescopes in New Mexico. Binary Giant Black Holes Spotted at Galaxy's Core 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal. After a dive into Saturn, Cassini spacecraft melts into history 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z And they’re also going to use radio telescopes around the world. How the tentacles of jellyfish galaxies feed supermassive black holes 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The resulting report argued for using radio telescopes to listen for the kinds of electromagnetic signals that would emanate from an advanced civilization in space. Opinion | The never-ending search for UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Mark II radio telescope is the smaller of the two large dishes at the observatory site. Jodrell Bank's Mark II telescope gets Grade I listed status - BBC News 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z In the age of radio telescopes, scientists have spent far more energy trying to look for signs that other life might exist than they have signaling the existence of our own. Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z With the third detection, scientists are beginning to close in on their goal of using gravitational waves as a way of observing ancient events that would be invisible to optical or radio telescopes. Third gravitational wave detection gives hints on dark matter and black holes 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The nation also undertook its longest crewed mission and completed the world’s largest radio telescope. Aerospace peppers and astronaut robots: A town’s transformation reveals China's ambitions in space 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z China completes the world’s largest radio telescope, which will scan for alien life and search for black holes. A growing competition: China and the U.S. space program, year by year 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z As the spacecraft plunges toward the rings in subsequent orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina will be listening for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini’s signal. In mission's last hurrah, Cassini aims to solve riddle of Saturn's rings 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In 1995, Becker surveyed 25% of the sky with a radio telescope array, making the galaxy accessible to astronomers through an image that was more accurate than those that previous arrays could provide. Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted territories 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z It is the radio telescope that hunts killer asteroids, probes distant cosmic blasts and decades ago sent Earth’s most powerful message to the stars. Legendary radio telescope hangs in the balance 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z This is no simple task; there are a limited number of radio telescopes in the world and an inexhaustible list of possible uses for them. Mysterious radio burst came from a galaxy 2.5 billion light years away, astronomers discover 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The nation also embarked on its longest crewed mission and completed the world’s largest radio telescope. A growing competition: China and the U.S. space program, year by year 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z All FRBs were found using single-dish radio telescopes that are unable to narrow down the sources' locations with enough precision to further characterise the flashes. Mystery cosmic radio bursts pinpointed - BBC News 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Today, however, scientists keep track of it by aiming a network of radio telescopes at a distant quasar. 2017 leapt into the new year with an extra second of time 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z The story is narrated by a parrot in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, home to one of the largest radio telescopes in the world. Is Social Media Disconnecting Us From the Big Picture? 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z A powerful radio telescope captures an image of our amazing technicolor universe. Here’s What Our Galaxy Would Look Like With Superhuman Vision The Breakthrough Initiative, backed by Prof Stephen Hawking and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, will train a US radio telescope on a target called Tabby's Star. Dish to listen for ET around strange star - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z If they aimed their radio telescopes our way, they’d find Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” climbing up the Billboard charts and Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” fading away. An Exoplanet Too Far 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The team used two of the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescopes - Parkes Observatory in Australia and the Effelsberg in Germany - to survey from both the northern and southern hemispheres. WVU astrophysicist participates in hydrogen mapping project 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Using the Indian radio telescope was always a long shot and something of an experiment - the Schiaparelli lander was never designed to transmit directly to Earth. Mars landing: tense wait as ESA determines whether Schiaparelli probe has landed safely - live 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The $50 million radio telescope is undertaking an unprecedented survey of the cosmos—a project appropriately known as GLEAM, for the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky survey. Here’s What Our Galaxy Would Look Like With Superhuman Vision In the late 1950s, intense thermal emissions, measured by a radio telescope on Earth, told a different story. Venus: Inhospitable, and Perhaps Instructional 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Its single-dish radio telescope, one of the world’s biggest, is still in high demand. Arecibo Observatory hit with discrimination lawsuit 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Pisciotta said she had once dreamed of being a cosmologist but lacked the requisite math skills and instead took a night job operating a radio telescope on Mauna Kea. Under Hawaii’s Starriest Skies, a Fight Over Sacred Ground 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z On Sunday, China introduced the world’s largest radio telescope, capable of searching for signals from distant galaxies, and possibly extraterrestrial life. China’s Currency? That’s the Least of the Next U.S. Leader’s Problems 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The world’s largest radio telescope will catalog pulsars; probe gravitational waves, dark matter, and fast radio bursts; and listen for transmissions from alien civilizations. World’s largest radio telescope will search for dark matter, listen for aliens 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z That is how a Chinese villager described the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, which officially began operating in southwestern China. Presidential Debate, Aleppo, Arnold Palmer: Your Monday Briefing 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z And there may be more radio telescopes, including in Tibet. China Hunts for Scientific Glory, and Aliens, With New Telescope 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, I visited China's radio telescope to see the final stages of its construction. China's colossal radio telescope begins testing - BBC News 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Measuring 500 meters in diameter, the radio telescope is nestled within a stunning landscape of lush green karst formations in southern Guizhou province. China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The position of the parabola can be shifted in real time, so that the parabolic axis always aims at a cosmic object of interest as Earth rotates, just as a steerable radio telescope does. World’s largest radio telescope will search for dark matter, listen for aliens 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Astronomers use radio telescopes to probe phenomena such as star formation by observing gas and dust clouds that are too distant and/or too faint to be see by infrared or optical telescopes. Week in Geek - Hubble redux edition 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z But the terrain also offers a nearly ideal environment for a radio telescope. China Hunts for Scientific Glory, and Aliens, With New Telescope 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The team used an array of radio telescopes in Chile to close in on a nascent planetary system lying 176 light-years from Earth - distant to us, but nearby in astronomical terms. Star's dust cloud gives birth to giant planet - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and radar measurements by ground-based radio telescopes suggest it is a “rubble pile” with pebbles about half an inch wide on the surface. NASA Aims at an Asteroid Holding Clues to the Solar System’s Roots 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Over the weekend, they fired up the Allen Telescope Array — a large collection of radio telescopes northeast of San Francisco — and pointed it in the direction of the star. Astronomers have picked up a strong radio signal from space — but it doesn't mean aliens 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z "It's a great excitement to play Jodrell Bank - this gigantic radio telescope making us think about Sagan and his great movie Contact. "This kind of radio telescope environment is technology, space and spirituality meeting together. Jean Michel Jarre: Writing collaborations broke 'solitary process' - BBC News 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The wok is the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, and it officially began operating on Sunday, accompanied by jubilant national television coverage, after more than five years of construction. China Hunts for Scientific Glory, and Aliens, With New Telescope 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Made up of many interconnected radio dishes, South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope is still a work in progress. Powerful New Telescope Finds 1,300 Galaxies 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z And a cluster of radio telescopes was recently installed in northern Chile, where crews are building yet another telescope that will feature the world’s largest digital camera. Funding threatens future of giant telescope in Puerto Rico 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The radio telescope is designed to “search for intelligent life from outer space,” according to China’s state broadcaster CCTV. China Fits Final Piece to World’s Biggest Radio Telescope 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z An algorithm would compile data collected from radio telescopes around the globe in a project called the Event Horizon Telescope. Black Hole Feeds Off Space Weather 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z This is Alma, the most powerful radio telescope in the world and one of the most extraordinary places in Chile. Alma telescope peers into space from Chile's mountains - BBC News 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z He has already launched a project to listen for signals from outer space, using two of the world’s biggest radio telescopes. Crazy diamonds 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But time is not on his side for using an existing radio telescope – they are all booked out. Alien ‘Wow!’ signal could be explained after almost 40 years 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z China is joining the search for extraterrestrial life with construction of the world’s biggest and most sensitive radio telescope. China Fits Final Piece to World’s Biggest Radio Telescope 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The National Radio Astronomy Observatory says it doesn’t appear Tuesday’s incident damaged the radio telescope antenna. Man arrested Mauna Kea telescope facility rammed by vehicle 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z The National Radio Astronomy Observatory says it doesn't appear Tuesday's incident damaged the radio telescope antenna. A man is under arrest after allegedly ramming a vehicle into a radio telescope facility atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Astronomers used the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, to search for enigmatic blasts of radio waves. Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Radio Blast From Space 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z On 18 April 2015, the Parkes radio telescope in Australia detected a burst lasting less than 1 millisecond, one of the shortest yet. Mysterious radio burst pinpointed in distant galaxy 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The Chinese government is relocating thousands of villagers to complete construction by September of the world’s biggest radio telescope, whose intended purpose is to detect signs of extraterrestrial life. Alien Telescope Project to Displace 9,000 Villagers in China 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z China’s investment in the world’s largest radio telescope delivers a nice metaphor for China’s investment in science: it represents the big picture, and the potential payoff for a far-seeing strategy. China's giant telescope represents its big ambitions for science 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z More than 9,000 people are being relocated in China before the opening of the world’s largest radio telescope later this year. China Will Relocate 9,000 People to Build World's Largest Radio Telescope 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The EHT is an effort to harness together existing radio telescopes scattered across the globe and use them as one giant instrument. Globe-spanning telescope array glimpses magnetic field around Milky Way’s black hole 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z For more than half a century, radio telescopes scanned the skies listening for alien signals. How To Detect Alien Civilizations That Self-Destructed 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z They observed the phenomenon using the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and the Hale Telescope in California. Brown Dwarf Boasts Brightest Auroras Ever Seen [Slide Show] 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z One of the two main radio telescopes being used in the search is a 64-metre-wide parabolic dish known as the Parkes telescope. Australia's role in the search for life in space - BBC News 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The radio telescope, which measures 500 meters in diameter, will be used to reflect radio signals from distant parts of the universe and help search for extraterrestrial life beyond the galaxy, reports the Guardian. China Will Relocate 9,000 People to Build World's Largest Radio Telescope 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z A third motive for the push is that an unprecedented amount of time is now available on first-rate radio telescopes. The optimistic gamble 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Its dishes collect wavelengths about a millimeter or less—much shorter than those detected by traditional radio telescopes. Telescope spots galaxy refueling in the early universe 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Its dishes collect wavelengths around a millimeter or less—much shorter than those detected by traditional radio telescopes. Telescope spots galaxy refuelling in the early universe 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z This will secure time on the world’s best radio telescopes and develop instruments to scan the sky in a far more comprehensive and sustained fashion than ever before. Let's listen out for alien life – and remember we might not understand it 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z One of the biggest costs lies in booking time at radio telescopes, including at Australia's Parkes Observatory in New South Wales and the Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Billionaire Milner pledges $100 million to find intelligent life in space 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z They may not look like much but they are the most advanced low-frequency radio telescope in existence. The Square Kilometre Array: radio silence in Western Australia for most powerful telescope in history 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Spacecraft communicate with Earth by transmitting microwave signals to radio telescopes on Earth. Aged Technology on Pluto Flyby Probe Won't Cripple Mission 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Beginning on September 14 the spacecraft will download all the encounter data to radio telescopes on Earth. New Horizons Emerges Unscathed from Pluto Flyby 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The Green Bank Telescope is the world’s largest fully moveable radio telescope. Professor studies star formation with innovative telescope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z To see deeper into the black hole shadow, they needed to be able to tune their radio telescope to shorter wavelengths that could penetrate the haze. Black Hole Hunters 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Once the project is properly under way – with arrays at this site and another in a remote area of South Africa – it will in effect make up the biggest radio telescope the world has seen. The Square Kilometre Array: radio silence in Western Australia for most powerful telescope in history 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The array is made up of 66 radio telescope dishes high on a plateau in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Astronomers find 11.6-billion-year-old star nursery in ancient galaxy 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The permanent headquarters of the world's biggest radio telescope will be based in Britain. UK to be giant telescope's HQ - BBC News 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z On the printout that the radio telescope produced of the signal, Ehman wrote one word: “Wow!” Life in Space? Maybe We Really Are Alone 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The March observing run was the first time the group would have enough telescopes — seven radio telescopes, on six mountains, — to begin to hope they could glimpse the black hole. Black Hole Hunters 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The SKA aims to use the globe as a giant radio telescope to image the early Universe, when the first stars and galaxies were forming. An array of problems 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The world's largest radio telescope will be built in Australia and South Africa, and managed from somewhere in Europe. UK and Italy wrestle over mega-telescope's hub 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He aimed the 85-foot dish of a radio telescope at two nearby, sun-like stars, tuning to a frequency he thought an alien civilization might use for interstellar communication. Is there life beyond Earth? Do we even want to know? 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z She was a telescope systems specialist technician on the James Clark Maxwell radio telescope for 12 years. World’s Largest Telescope Faces Opposition from Native Hawaiian Protesters 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The first piece of Dr. Doeleman’s spider silk to break was the radio telescope in Chile. Black Hole Hunters 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Up until recently, the array of radio telescopes was still using technology from when they were built in the 1970s. ‘Very Large Array’ gets $90M upgrade, capture galaxy storm 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z At the Square Kilometre Array, a radio telescope being built in Africa and Australia, will collect enough data in one year to fill 300 million million laptops. Thousand hearts in big data study 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z When the physicists who run the South Pole-based radio telescope BICEP2 found what seemed to be a signal from the dawn of time, it felt like a slam dunk. Gravitational-wave hunt enters next phase 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The March finding was released by researchers using a radio telescope at the South Pole called BICEP2. Gravitational waves discovery now officially dead 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Not only is it centrally located, but the new Large Millimeter Telescope, with its giant dish designed for short wavelengths, is also the most sensitive radio telescope in the network. Black Hole Hunters 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Dr van Leeuwen’s team set about monitoring those waves, nearly every day for the next five years, using the world’s five biggest radio telescopes. 'Bent time' tips pulsar out of view 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Using a large radio telescope with a dish 13.7 meters across the astronomers sought the dense interstellar gas clouds that mark spiral arms. A Spectacular Spiral May Encircle the Milky Way 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z I'm lucky enough, relatively speaking, to be far from the epicentre of the disaster, sitting in the control room of one of our best radio telescopes. Missed message : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Earlier this month, astronomers using the radio telescope published some of the most detailed images yet seen of early planetary formation around a baby star. Star formation theories challenged by new telescope discovery 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The stunning detail and clarity of the new ALMA radio telescope image surprised scientists. Spectacular View of Newborn Planetary System Captured by Radio Telescope 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The winter staff will at least double when the radio telescope arrives, as will the station’s power needs. US plans upgrade for ageing Greenland research station 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z And he points to the Large Latin American Millimetre Array, a radio telescope being built in the north of Argentina in collaboration with Brazil. Astronomy: To catch a cosmic ray 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The SETI@home project collects mountains of data through radio telescopes around the world—so much data that it was impossible to process it all. NetAppVoice: Rural Healthcare Is Failing -- A Modest Proposal To Fix It 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The latest map, obtained with the European Space Agency's Planck radio telescope, could however guide astronomers to the regions where they may have the best chance of detecting the primordial signal. Full-galaxy dust map muddles search for gravitational waves 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z ALMA's design calls for 66 individual radio telescopes to work together as a single instrument. Spectacular View of Newborn Planetary System Captured by Radio Telescope 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The latest result, from a US team using a worldwide network of radio telescopes, is in good agreement with more than a dozen previous measurements to the Pleiades, made using multiple techniques. Row reignites over distance of Pleiades star cluster 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z By scouring the sky with radio telescopes, we just might intercept a signal. In Search for Intelligent Life, Consider the Lottery 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z They have deployed a series of ever more sensitive radio telescopes at the South Pole. Astronomers Hedge on Big Bang Detection Claim 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z A lone dirt road snakes to the entrance, a few miles from the nearest town and a short drive to the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope. From Accused Terrorist to Medical Adventurer "I'd read his book and was very impressed," says Frank Drake, who had just completed the first experiment to detect signals from extraterrestrial civilisations using a radio telescope at Green Bank in West Virginia. The dolphin who loved me 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Using radio telescopes including the Very Long Baseline Array, the US team exploited the physics of electromagnetic waves to operate the instruments as one giant, precise, Earth-sized telescope. Row reignites over distance of Pleiades star cluster 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The radio telescope will then begin staring into supermassive black holes, searching for the origin of cosmic magnetic fields and seeking clues about the young Universe. Cloud computing beckons scientists 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z If they could recreate the language used to talk to the spacecraft and get access to a powerful enough radio telescope, they would be able to bring it back. Spaceship come home: can citizen scientists rescue an abandoned space probe? 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Khanna is also going to work on an astronomy data analysis project: doing signal searches for new pulsars in radio telescope data. Modeling Black Holes With Sony Playstations: The Next Challenge 2014-05-12T13:44:00Z The hunt went on for weeks using orbiting spacecraft and powerful radio telescopes, but it was never found. 'The UK man sending a probe to Mars' 2014-05-08T10:12:11Z Fortunately, it’s possible to mimic the performance of an Earth-size telescope by coordinating existing radio telescopes scattered around the world. How To Build An Earth-Size Telescope 2014-04-11T16:00:23Z During the flybys, lasting just a few minutes, radio telescopes that are part of NASA’s Deep Space Network broadcast a signal to the spacecraft, which echoed it back to Earth. A Moon of Saturn Has a Sea, Scientists Say 2014-04-03T18:06:04Z Telescope progress The first of 64 huge antennas that will eventually make up the world’s biggest radio telescope opened for business in South Africa on 27 March. Seven days: 28 March–3 April 2014 2014-04-02T17:20:20.079Z “It was a very special moment, and one we took very seriously as scientists,” said Dr. Kovac, who chooses his words as carefully as he tends his radio telescopes. Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang 2014-03-17T14:46:02Z For example, Wagstaff and her team work with 10 radio telescopes stationed throughout the globe. How NASA Answers Big Questions With Big Data 2014-02-27T20:59:00Z You aim your radio telescope at a point in the sky and find nothing. Raw Data: Hills to Scientific Discoveries Grow Steeper 2014-02-17T20:59:51Z Our big radio telescopes have heard not a peep so far. Are we nearing the end of science? 2014-02-10T22:48:47Z Some began to build radio telescopes and aimed them at the heavens. History: Shut up and calculate! 2014-01-08T18:21:06.631Z He is one of four leaders of Bicep, which has operated a series of increasingly sensitive radio telescopes at the South Pole, where the air — thin, cold and dry — creates ideal observing conditions. Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang 2014-03-17T14:46:02Z Astronomers rushed to employ a mighty suite of optical, infrared and radio telescopes spread across the Southern Hemisphere, as well as x-ray and ultraviolet instruments onboard , to watch the momentous event unfolding in the LMC. Physicists Eagerly Await Neutrinos from the Next Nearby Supernova [Excerpt] 2013-12-13T15:15:00.425Z Work begins on world’s largest multiple-dish radio telescope: the Square Kilometre Array. Physics Week in Review: November 9, 2013 2013-11-09T20:45:03.370Z Arecibo, world’s biggest radio telescope, celebrates 50 years of listening to cosmic mysteries. Physics Week in Review (All Saint's Edition): November 2, 2013 2013-11-03T04:15:03.350Z He even helped fund the building of a radio telescope to search for extraterrestrial life. How to Save Coral Reefs from Climate Change: Genetic Manipulation 2013-10-16T23:15:00.407Z Beginning in the early 1990s, as radio telescopes intermittently swept the skies for messages from extraterrestrials, a revolution occurred in astronomy. Five Billion Years of Solitude : Looking for Longevity [Excerpt] 2013-10-04T19:15:00.507Z That’s something not possible with the Parkes radio telescope which has a field of view of many galaxies at any given time. Searching For Deep Cosmos' Mysterious 'Fast Radio Bursts' 2013-09-26T01:55:00Z The surrealistic sky is a simulation of the types of imagery the radio telescope might capture from early in the cosmos. NASA Sites Lunar Far Side For Low-Frequency Radio Telescope 2013-08-31T01:28:00Z Telescope strike Less than six months after the inauguration of a US$1.4-billion radio telescope array in Chile, astronomical observations have ceased because of a labour strike. Seven days: 23–29 August 2013 2013-08-28T17:20:16.073Z It shows the Milky Way appear to line up with the dish of a radio telescope. Amazing pics from astronomy contest 2013-07-30T16:17:16Z All that was needed to shatter Earth’s cosmic loneliness was for the receiving radio telescope to be pointed at the right part of the sky, at the right time, listening at the right radio frequency. Five Billion Years of Solitude : Looking for Longevity [Excerpt] 2013-10-04T19:15:00.507Z Eventually, the winning image will be transmitted into the Milky Way from the world’s most powerful radio telescope, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Cassini Spacecraft Takes One Last Look at Home Today 2013-07-19T14:45:00.590Z The group is asking funding agencies for a small - about £1m a year - sum of money to support listening time on radio telescopes and for data analysis. UK group to search for alien signals 2013-07-05T16:01:47Z Telescope deal The Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia will receive a US$1-million boost from West Virginia University in Morgantown, according to an agreement announced on 23 August. Seven days: 23–29 August 2013 2013-08-28T17:20:16.073Z In November 1974, the radio telescope in Puerto Rico sent a brief coded message to a star cluster in the constellation Hercules, nearly 25,000 light years away. Searching for Alien Life, One Text at a Time 2013-06-12T17:55:25Z Over the years, astronomers used radio telescopes around the world to conduct hundreds of searches, looking at thousands of stars on millions of narrowband radio frequencies. Five Billion Years of Solitude : Looking for Longevity [Excerpt] 2013-10-04T19:15:00.507Z In Iraq, an ambitious plan to build a world-class observatory in the northern high mountains was launched in the 1980s, envisaging 3.5- and 1.25-metre telescopes, along with a 30-metre radio telescope. Astrophysics: Time for an Arab astronomy renaissance 2013-06-12T17:50:31.210Z After the war he switched old south Wales for New South Wales in Australia, where he built the Parkes radio telescope which received the first slow-scan images of the Moon landing in July 1969. Pioneer's WWII radar work remembered 2013-05-25T10:41:37Z "The MeerKAT radio telescope, designed and being built by South Africa as an SKA precursor, will be the most powerful instrument in its class until the construction of the SKA," he says. What if Africa were to become the hub for global science? 2013-03-26T17:44:32Z The true purpose of a Watson, however, is not to show off on television but to sift data from radio telescopes or provide medical diagnoses. Information technology in Africa: The next frontier 2013-02-14T16:06:18Z Three hundred fifty 6‑meter dishes would act together as one extremely sensitive radio telescope, monitoring an area of sky nearly five times larger than the full Moon on a wide range of frequencies. Five Billion Years of Solitude : Looking for Longevity [Excerpt] 2013-10-04T19:15:00.507Z In this case, the right kind means not a visible-light telescope but a radio telescope. Cosmic Light Show: Auroras Around Distant Worlds 2013-01-25T13:50:27Z Researchers used the Low-Frequency Array radio telescope based in The Netherlands to observe radio emissions most likely caused by powerful auroras from planets outside of our solar system. Alien Auroras May Light Up Exoplanet Night Skies 2013-01-22T20:45:02.387Z Australia and South Africa will share the location for the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array. Free-Floating, Nearby Black Holes Detectable By Decade's End, New Study Reports 2013-01-21T10:20:56Z Millions are expected to tune in to watch Professor Brian Cox and Dara O'Brien explain the wonders of the night sky from the main control room of the site's massive 76-metre wide Lovell radio telescope. VIDEO: Stargazing Live at Jodrell Bank 2013-01-09T11:17:49Z On Dec. 12, one of these bruisers, known as Toutatis, caught the eye—or antenna—of the Goldstone radio telescope. Rogue Asteroid Caught On Film 2012-12-19T09:55:00Z That effect—known as a traveling ionospheric disturbance, or TID—should theoretically be detectable with technologies that are sensitive to changes in the ionosphere, such as global satellite networks and radio telescopes. Satellites Could Detect Nuclear Tests 2012-12-05T01:25:00Z Because many nations' science budgets are shrinking, such collaborations are on the horizon—including a radio telescope with a square kilometer surface area to be located in South Africa or Australia. On Firmament Ground: Partially Completed ALMA Radio Telescope Already Generating Discoveries 2012-11-05T19:49:57.043Z SKA, set to become the world's biggest radio telescope project based in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, aims to answer key questions about the Universe. Australia unveils radio telescope 2012-10-05T09:14:31Z The Lovell Telescope was first built in 1957 and remains one of the biggest and most powerful radio telescopes in the world. VIDEO: Stargazing Live at Jodrell Bank 2013-01-09T11:17:49Z SKA, set to become the world's biggest radio telescope project based in both South Africa and Australia, aims to answer key questions about the Universe. Australia unveils radio telescope 2012-10-05T06:39:50Z The radius of the black hole was observed with the Event Horizon Telescope – a chain of radio telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California. Astronomers Measure The Radius Of A Black Hole 2012-09-29T07:05:22Z Ageing satellite dishes, once the backbone of Africa’s telecommunications system, are being given a new lease of life as radio telescopes. Recycled dishes form telescope network 2012-08-29T17:50:25.620Z Links: Microwave laser fulfills 60 years of promise Belt-tightening at the National Science Foundation may spell the end for two ground-based radio telescopes. The Countdown, Episode 3: Quantum Teleportation, Mars Rover Mixtape, MASER Beams, Funding Ax for Telescopes, Radiation Space Probes 2012-08-24T00:15:00.223Z Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has canceled construction of the Navy's 600-foot radio telescope because of rising costs and a decline in its potential military value. 50 Years Ago: Antarctic Fama 2012-08-18T04:15:07.733Z The center’s 250-foot-wide white dish, mounted on latticework steel towers standing high in the English countryside, is today the third-largest steerable radio telescope in the world. Sir Bernard Lovell Dies at 98; a Radio Telescope Bears His Name 2012-08-08T04:30:49Z The Event Horizon Telescope will be adding radio telescopes from still more countries into its array, allowing even more precise observation of the black hole. Astronomers Measure The Radius Of A Black Hole 2012-09-29T07:05:22Z When he was developing his idea for a radio telescope in the 1950s, he faced much hostility over the cost of the project. Obituary: Sir Bernard Lovell 2012-08-07T13:24:46Z Half-way through my science/law degree I participated in the Summer Project Program at UTas and learned about radio telescopes. 30 under 30: Tracing the Evolution of the Universe 2012-06-25T11:15:00.190Z Low-frequency radio telescopes such as the Murchison array could help spot the 21cm waves But dark matter, because it does not interact with normal matter, was not swayed by the waves, responding only to gravity. New window into earliest Universe 2012-06-20T17:54:32Z I would love to work with the Square Kilometer Array, a huge radio telescope array that will be built across Australia/New Zealand and Southern Africa. 30 under 30: A Radio Astronomer Investigating Galaxy Evolution 2012-06-15T12:15:00.210Z Funnyman Bishop will complete his stint at which houses the Lovell Telescope - the third largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world. Football manager kicks off relay 2012-05-31T06:55:22Z After months of intense political negotiation, the world’s largest radio telescope has found not one home, but two. Winners all round in telescope bid 2012-05-30T17:50:24.417Z Meanwhile, scientists are digesting another split decision, on where to build the world's most powerful radio telescope. Split decision 2012-05-30T17:50:05.630Z "This whole subject of 21cm cosmology is about to open up; there are at least four different groups building radio telescope arrays focussing on about redshift 10," he said. New window into earliest Universe 2012-06-20T17:54:32Z There is already infrastructure in South Africa and Australia, including radio telescope dishes that were built as precursors to the new array. Giant telescope to explore far reaches of cosmos 2012-05-25T15:56:56Z An artist's impression shows the vast array of telescopes that will comprise the SKA South Africa, Australia and New Zealand will host the biggest radio telescope ever built. Nations to share giant telescope 2012-05-25T14:30:22Z The SKA will be dozens of times more powerful than any previous radio telescope. Winners all round in telescope bid 2012-05-30T17:50:24.417Z And although they will in the end share responsibility for the radio telescope, South Africa claimed a form of victory, saying that it would be home to two of the project’s three major components. | Africa: South Africa to Share Telescope With Australia and New Zealand 2012-05-26T01:23:12Z Normally, Martin worked nights monitoring data from the radio telescope. Perchance to bleam 2012-04-25T17:21:07.597Z Rawlings was a key figure in the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project. Seven days: 13?19 April 2012 2012-04-18T17:20:21.850Z The project aims to produce a radio telescope with a combined collecting area of one million square metres - equivalent to about 200 football pitches. Nations to share giant telescope 2012-05-25T14:30:22Z With the battle to host the world's most powerful radio telescope growing increasingly acrimonious, the project's leaders are considering whether to divide the spoils. Giant Radio Telescope May Get Two Homes on Opposite Sides of Earth 2012-04-10T18:45:10.217Z More than 44,000 radio antennas will soon link over the Internet to create one of the most ambitious radio telescopes ever built. A New Radio Telescope Will Scan for E.T. s Calls 2012-04-10T16:15:05.907Z South Africa and Australia are competing to host an even bigger radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array, which would be fully operational by 2024. High in Chilean Desert, a Huge Astronomy Project 2012-04-07T19:42:59Z As dean of Cornell’s College of Engineering, Dr. Corson helped start the university’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the largest radio telescope in the world at the time, and a particle accelerator on campus. Dale Corson, Cornell Administrator Who Helped Quell Protest, Dies at 97 2012-04-06T02:44:26Z For more than 40 years, scientists have used radio telescopes to probe starry regions trillions of miles away for sounds of alien life. Is Silence Going Extinct? 2012-03-15T22:17:17Z In 1999 it started SETI@home, an application that uses spare processing power on volunteers’ computers to sift the information generated by its radio telescopes. Searching for aliens: The wow factor 2012-03-08T16:00:34Z Meanwhile, the Air Force was interested in using the radio telescopes. Life Out There: SETI Research Is Revived - Life Out There 2012-01-30T02:28:04Z Using a vast array of radio telescopes, the astronomers anticipate that they’ll be able to catch a glimpse of the event horizons at much broader bandwidths than traditional radio telescopes. Scientists Aim To Directly View A Black Hole 2012-01-24T19:51:18Z But on June 5, the radio telescopes spotted bright knots of material flying away in opposite directions. Astronomers Catch Black Hole Spitting Out Material 2012-01-11T20:15:28.217Z Observations like these, presented at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society here, reveal that the nearly-completed radio telescope is performing well. ScienceShot: New Telescope Captures Supermassive Black Hole 2012-01-10T16:32:25Z The way data is collected from brain scans and radio telescopes is similar too. How Brain Scans Can Help Astronomers Understand Stars 2012-01-10T01:15:07.507Z The project’s 42 radio telescopes are scanning Kepler-22b and other Kepler finds. Newest alien planet is just the right temperature for life 2011-12-05T19:44:37Z Yelp is about as useful to you as the Very Large Array of radio telescopes. Why The Demise of Friendly?s Is Bad For America 2011-10-19T09:00:20Z With the cupped ears of radio telescopes, we began listening for voices from other worlds. Opinion: Planets in the Sky With Diamonds 2011-10-02T01:39:00Z Radio-array rivals Australia and South Africa submitted their final bids to host the Square Kilometre Array of radio telescopes on 15 September. Seven days: 22 September 2011 2011-09-21T17:20:16.293Z One of the most striking is the lopsided thickness of the outer gas disk, also discovered using radio telescopes. The Dark Side of The Milky Way 2011-09-20T14:45:05.700Z An array of 42 radio telescopes seeking signs of intelligent life in the universe will continue that work after private donors raised enough money to keep it operating. | WEST: California: Attention, E.T. ? Operators Are Still Standing By 2011-08-13T03:37:19Z The other attraction was the infrastructure being built nearby, including two 'pathfinder' radio telescopes that will test some of the technology to be used on the SKA. Australia: Astronomy in the outback 2011-08-10T17:20:44.080Z The world’s largest radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, is seen from the air in this March 26, 2003 photo. Observing The Arecibo Observatory 2011-08-03T20:06:19Z This milestone means that the radio telescope can begin original science observations in September. Seven days: 4 August 2011 2011-08-03T17:20:14.230Z Just up the road from Paranal, the world's biggest network of radio telescopes. Desert skies 2011-07-24T23:36:09Z Once RadioAstron's 27 carbon fibre petals open up to form a dish, the telescope will start to collect data, then combine it with observations captured by radio telescopes on Earth. Giant space scope reaches orbit 2011-07-19T14:03:09Z Scientists and policy-makers meet in Banff, Canada, to discuss the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. Seven days: 30 June 2011 2011-06-29T17:20:28.787Z The world's largest radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, is seen from the air in this March 26, 2003 photo. Observing The Arecibo Observatory 2011-08-03T20:06:19Z What will resolve these issues in the case of the filaments are simply more observations using more radio telescopes. 'Filaments' hold dark matter test 2011-06-29T10:40:50Z On April 2, the vision of the radio telescopes now dotting the Australian and South African landscapes someday giving way to a mammoth cluster of 3,000 dishes began to look a little untenable. Array of Hope: Australia and South Africa Vie for Massive Radio Telescope Project 2011-05-09T17:15:00.260Z A promising signal had initially been detected from Earth-based radio telescopes. Destination Titan 2011-04-08T10:59:33Z Scientists are meeting in Rome to decide which country should host the headquarters for the biggest radio telescope ever built. AUDIO: Telescope 'as big as a continent' 2011-03-31T08:56:56Z The SKA should offer 50 times greater sensitivity and 100 times better resolution than any radio telescope array on Earth so far. As big as a continent 2011-03-31T01:39:32Z The principle idea is to use a radio telescope to map neutral hydrogen, which emits or absorbs radio waves with a wavelength of 21 centimeters. China to Tune in to the Music of Dark Energy 2011-03-25T16:12:13Z At each of the far-flung sites, a handful of radio telescopes has sprung up like clusters of white mushrooms blooming from the red earth. Array of Hope: Australia and South Africa Vie for Massive Radio Telescope Project 2011-05-09T17:15:00.260Z A network of radio telescopes providing information on radio bursts is run by the US Air Force's Radio Solar Telescope Network. Global solar observatory flares into life 2011-02-17T22:45:00.227Z Volunteers downloaded a program that used their computers’ idle processing cycles to sift through data from radio telescopes. Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web 2010-12-28T00:31:59Z "As a pathfinder for the next-generation international radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, E-Merlin represents another giant leap forward for the global radio astronomy community." 'Superscope' yields first glimpse 2010-12-10T17:08:14Z The next generation of large radio telescopes is under construction right now to attempt much more sophisticated measurements of the 21 cm line from the EoR. Astronomer Opens New Window Into Early Universe 2010-12-09T15:17:00Z It could easily dwarf the Very Large Array in New Mexico, one of the premier radio telescope arrays on Earth, which features 27 dishes, each 25 meters across. Array of Hope: Australia and South Africa Vie for Massive Radio Telescope Project 2011-05-09T17:15:00.260Z Pulsars are extremely weak sources, however, and detecting them normally requires a large radio telescope—a heavy payload for spacecraft. How to Use a Pulsar to Find Starbucks 2010-11-24T16:09:00Z Frank Drake made the world's first such observations at the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia 50 years ago, listening on a single-channel receiver that took in radio waves one frequency at a time. Observatories on 5 continents to scan skies for extraterrestrial life 2010-11-07T00:20:00Z Africa is also competing with Australia in a bid to host the world's most powerful radio telescope, able to peer back billions of years in time. Africa set to join big boys in space race 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z South Africa also hopes to win a bid to host a giant radio telescope project known as the Square Kilometer Array. South Africa Tries to Scale the Industrial Ladder 2010-08-02T16:40:00Z The best known of these is called the "Wow" signal, because that's what an astronomer who picked it up wrote on a printout from a radio telescope at Ohio State University in the 1970s. Contacting Aliens: Keep It Short, Scientists Suggest 2010-07-27T09:00:00Z Many facilities bear his name, including the federal courthouse in Charleston and a huge radio telescope in the Allegheny Mountain town of Green Bank. West Virginia, Political Elite Say Goodbye to Byrd 2010-07-02T22:45:00Z Officials at the largest radio telescope in the world, Arecibo, will also participate. Observatories on 5 continents to scan skies for extraterrestrial life 2010-11-07T00:20:00Z The radio telescope is run not by astronomers, but by Norway’s mapping institute. Green.view: The connected Arctic 2010-06-29T11:52:00Z A collaboration among 19 countries, it would be the most powerful radio telescope ever built, attracting significant related investment in astrophysics and cosmology. South Africa Tries to Scale the Industrial Ladder 2010-08-02T16:40:00Z It would show up in a radio telescope as a brief pulse that repeats periodically—perhaps every few months or years. Is Anybody Out There? 2010-04-10T03:18:00Z His design called for a metallic dish with a diameter of 1,000 feet; the biggest radio telescope at the time was just 150 feet across.. W. E. Gordon, Creator of Link to Deep Space, Dies at 92 2010-02-27T17:28:00Z One reason this is hard is that radio telescopes must chop the spectrum into fine portions to study it, like tuning into a signal on a car radio. Looking for ET: Signs of life 2010-02-25T11:16:00Z Of course you will see a great deal of the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza, since our new radio telescope is nearby. The Egyptian Cat Mystery "The big radio telescopes on Luna and on the Jovian satellites can pick them up if we beam them sunward, and the Plutonian station can pick us up if we beam in that direction." Hanging by a Thread The radio telescope was pointed at a nearby star called Epsilon Eridani. Is Anybody Out There? 2010-04-10T03:18:00Z It was his desire to measure the properties of electrons 2,000 miles up that led him to radio telescopes. W. E. Gordon, Creator of Link to Deep Space, Dies at 92 2010-02-27T17:28:00Z The S-Regions are invisible to the eye through an optical telescope, but are detected with ease by a radio telescope. Disturbing Sun Now, the Egyptian Astronomical Society has just finished constructing a new radio telescope. The Egyptian Cat Mystery The mechanism of the radio telescope whirred into life as he spoke and its disk shone bright with the reflected light of Titan as it pictured the body. Creatures of Vibration It has included renting time on some of the biggest radio telescopes in the world—such as the 1,000-foot dish at Arecibo in Puerto Rico, featured in the James Bond movie "GoldenEye." Is Anybody Out There? 2010-04-10T03:18:00Z An even better one is the important part played in U.S. efforts by England's giant radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session Later messages had been picked up by radio telescope and converted to appear as symbols on the oscilloscope screen. Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X Then the blacktop road curved out into the desert to the great radio telescope. The Egyptian Cat Mystery This was unusual, since the radio telescopes ordinarily recorded the incoming signals in trace form on Sanborn strips. The Egyptian Cat Mystery It was obvious that the scientists were far more interested in the problem of the radio telescope than in listening to tales of wild adventure in the bazaar, so the boys let the matter drop. The Egyptian Cat Mystery The sources in space studied by the radio telescopes were fixed, in the same sense that the stars themselves were fixed. The Egyptian Cat Mystery I arrived this morning because I had gone to the radio telescope to look for them.... The Egyptian Cat Mystery Later, the boys helped check circuits while the radio telescope swung through a variety of arcs, with Farid at the controls. The Egyptian Cat Mystery We're exchanging reports constantly with the other radio telescopes and it's clear that we have something extraordinary. The Egyptian Cat Mystery Their whole attention was given to the problem of getting the big radio telescope working. The Egyptian Cat Mystery If the other radio telescopes are able to participate, it will serve to confirm or disprove our own information. The Egyptian Cat Mystery Rick knew of the huge American radio telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, and the smaller one at Goldstone Lake, in California. The Egyptian Cat Mystery Both stated that the finding was remarkable and requested all available data from Sahara Wells, and both announced their intention of concentrating on the object while it was in "view" of their radio telescopes. The Egyptian Cat Mystery Rick turned and looked at the radio telescope at Sahara Wells, its great parabolic reflector gleaming in the brilliant moonlight. The Egyptian Cat Mystery |
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