Electromagnetic radiation astronomy is a research area focused on observing and interpreting astrophysical phenomena through their emission, absorption, and scattering of electromagnetic radiation across the entire spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. It encompasses the development and use of ground-based and space-borne telescopes, detectors, and instrumentation optimized for specific wavelength ranges, along with calibration, data reduction, and spectral, temporal, and imaging analysis techniques. The field integrates radiative transfer, plasma physics, and atomic and molecular processes to infer physical conditions, kinematics, composition, and magnetic fields in cosmic sources, and underpins multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies of the universe.
A new dataset from the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is now publicly available, opening the door for scientists worldwide to make discoveries in one of the richest molecular clouds in our galaxy, TMC-1.
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A radio pulsar is like a cosmic lighthouse, a highly dense, rapidly rotating star that emits beams of radio waves. If Earth happens to be in the path, a "pulse" of radio waves will be detected.
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An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission outside the center of a galaxy. The findings are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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By analyzing the available data from various space observatories and ground-based telescopes, Indian astronomers have conducted a long-term multiwavelength study of a changing-look active galactic nucleus (AGN) known as NGC ...
Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in space emit radiation at much longer wavelengths, in the radio portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. ...
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Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have highlighted this fact, when both were first discussed on message boards and verified via remote telescopes ...
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Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid them when looking for ...
Astronomers hunting for evidence of the light from the first stars and galaxies have found that the universe was warm, rather than cold, before it "lit up."
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An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from the early universe, soon to be observed from missions on the far side of the moon, could shed light ...
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Construction is underway of CHORD, the most ambitious radio telescope project ever built on Canadian soil. Short for the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector, CHORD will give astronomers an unprecedented ...
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