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Radio Astronomy

Podcast: The Arecibo Observatory

May 11, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The mighty Arecibo Radio Observatory is one of the most powerful radio telescopes ever built – it’s certainly the larger single aperture radio telescope on Earth, nestled into a natural sinkhole in Puerto Rico. We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the [...]

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The Curious Channel 37 — Must-see TV For Radio Astronomy

May 1, 2013

Thanks to Channel 37, radio astronomers keep tabs on everything from the Sun to pulsars to the lonely spaces between the stars. This particular frequency, squarely in the middle of the UHF TV broadcast band, has been reserved for radio astronomy since 1963, when astronomers successfully lobbied the FCC to keep it TV-free. Remove this ad

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Radio Observatory Moves to a Shopping Mall

April 26, 2013

How’s this for bringing science to the public? This weekend, the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden will be moving their telescope’s control room to Scandinavia’s biggest shopping mall, Nordstan (North Town) in Gothenburg. “The idea is to remotely observe with our 20-meter telescope — as well as a couple of smaller ones — and let [...]

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First-Ever High Resolution Radio Images of Supernova 1987A

April 3, 2013

On February 23, 1987, the brightest extragalactic supernova in history was seen from Earth. Now 26 years later, astronomers have taken the highest resolution radio images ever of the expanding supernova remnant at extremely precise millimeter wavelengths. Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, Supernova 1987A has been now [...]

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A Radio Astronomer’s Paradise

April 1, 2013

Last month a dozen journalists from around North America were guests of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and got to take a trip to the Atacama Desert in Chile to attend the inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observatory — ALMA, for short. It was, in no uncertain terms, a radio astronomer’s paradise. Join [...]

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