News tagged with radio emissions

Cosmic radio beacons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because all cosmic objects evolve with time, astronomers sometimes have a difficult time deciding if two sources that seem different are actually related but just in different stages of life. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Pushing the envelope

(PhysOrg.com) -- G327.1-1.1 is the aftermath of a massive star that exploded as a supernova in the Milky Way galaxy.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

X-Ray Jets

(PhysOrg.com) -- The supermassive black holes that lie at the centers of galaxies can spawn tremendous bipolar jets of atomic particles.

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created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Cluster collisions switch on radio halos

(PhysOrg.com) -- This is a composite image of the northern part of the galaxy cluster Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth, showing the effects of a collision between two smaller galaxy ...

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created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why are sunspots a source of radio emissions? Researcher explains more

Why sunspots are a strong source of radio emissions and what information those emissions carry will be the focus of an invited talk by NJIT Research Professor Jeongwoo Lee tomorrow at the International Astronomical ...

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created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery of Saturn's auroral heartbeat

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists led by Dr Jonathan Nichols of the University of Leicester has discovered that Saturn’s aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn’s upper ...

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created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Image: Black Hole Blows Big Bubble

This composite image shows a powerful microquasar produced by a black hole in the outskirts of the nearby (12.7 million light years) galaxy NGC 7793. The large image contains data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Have black holes been turning up the volume on the cosmic radio background?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers investigating why the cosmic background radiation is much brighter at radio wavelengths than expected have identified a potential culprit: fast spinning black holes early in the ...

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created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists make first discovery using revolutionary long wavelength demonstrator array

Scientists from NRL's Space Science and Remote Sensing Divisions, in collaboration with researchers from the University of New Mexico and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory located in Socorro, N.M., ...

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created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Allen Telescope Array begins all-sky surveys

(PhysOrg.com) -- With commissioning of the 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) nearly complete, UC Berkeley astronomers are now embarking on several major radio astronomy projects, including daily surveys of ...

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

An Intriguing, Glowing Galaxy

A supermassive black hole may be responsible for the glowing appearance of galaxy 3C 305, located about 600 million light years away in the constellation Draco. Composite data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

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created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 1


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