Radio Astronomy
Supermassive Black Holes Keep Galaxies From Getting Bigger
It's long been a mystery for astronomers: why aren't galaxies bigger? What regulates their rates of star formation and keeps…
Newly Discovered Fast Radio Bursts May be Colliding Neutron Stars
The Universe is sizzling with undiscovered phenomena. Only last month astronomers heard four unexpected bumps in the night. These Fast…
Podcast: The Arecibo Observatory
The mighty Arecibo Radio Observatory is one of the most powerful radio telescopes ever built – it’s certainly the larger…
The Curious Channel 37 — Must-see TV For Radio Astronomy
Thanks to Channel 37, radio astronomers keep tabs on everything from the Sun to pulsars to the lonely spaces between…
Radio Observatory Moves to a Shopping Mall
How’s this for bringing science to the public? This weekend, the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden will be moving their…
First-Ever High Resolution Radio Images of Supernova 1987A
On February 23, 1987, the brightest extragalactic supernova in history was seen from Earth. Now 26 years later, astronomers have…
A Radio Astronomer’s Paradise
Last month a dozen journalists from around North America were guests of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and got to…
Gigantic Plasma Jets Pour From the Heart of Hercules A
Combined Hubble (optical) and VLA (radio) images show enormous radio jets shooting out from the galaxy Hercules A Talk about…
36-Dish Australian Telescope Array Opens for Business
Three of 36 antennas of the ASKAP array. Credit: Alexander Cherney The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is now…
Researchers Send Mars Some Radar Love
A radar map of Mars' major volcanic regions created by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (John Harmon et al.,…