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A Green Bank Telescope Prototype Radar System Can Image the Moon in High-Resolution and Detect Asteroids
Everyone loves taking pictures of the Moon. Whether it’s with their phones or through the wonders of astrophotography, photographing the…
More Data and Machine Learning has Kicked SETI Into High Gear
An international team of SETI researchers used a new algorithm to look for technosignatures in GBT data. They found 8…
A Black Hole has been Burping for 100 Million Years
Black holes are gluttonous behemoths that lurk in the center of galaxies. Almost everybody knows that nothing can escape them,…
Canada's CHIME is Getting More Observatories to Search for Fast Radio Bursts
The CHIME array and its partner institutions are getting an upgrade to enhance their ability to trace Fast Radio Bursts…
Astronomers Might Have Detected the Background Gravitational Waves of the Universe
A new data release from a gravitational wave consortium has revealed indications of the long sough-after gravitational wave background (GWB).
A New Radar Instrument Will Try To Fill the Void Left By Arecibo
Observational astronomy is dependent on its data, and therefore also dependent on the instruments that collect that data. So when…
Dead Planets Around White Dwarfs Could Emit Radio Waves We Can Detect, Sending Out Signals for Billions of Years
A new study by a pair of astronomers has shown that planets orbiting white dwarfs will still be emitting radio…
Want to Find Aliens? The Largest Dataset in the History of SETI has Been Released to the Public
Breakthrough Listen has just released their latest analysis of the past three years of their SETI research, as well as…
Breakthrough Detects Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Coming from Distant Galaxy
Using the Green Bank Telescope, researchers with Breakthrough Listen recently detected repeating fast radio bursts coming from a distant galaxy.
Breakthrough Listen Publishes First Analysis Of 692 Stars In ET Search
Breakthrough Listen, the most ambitious SETI program in history, just released an analysis of their first year of data, which…