Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory could still have a future after its vast telescope dramatically collapsed this week, US officials said Thursday.
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Astronomers working at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico havedetected a weird radio signal, spotted when pointing their telescope at the nearby star Ross 128. They're not getting too excited about the prospect of ...
Astronomy
Jul 18, 2017
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The future of one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes is in question after the U.S. National Science Foundation announced Wednesday it was accepting proposals from those interested in assuming operations at ...
Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2017
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The search for mysterious "fast radio bursts" – very brief but intense pulses of radio waves from outer space – is heating up. Nobody knows what causes these powerful bursts, but some have even speculated that the signals ...
Astronomy
Nov 18, 2016
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Astronomers are getting ever closer to understanding the origin of mysterious "fast radio bursts" – very brief but intense pulses of radio waves from outer space – after a series of recent contradictory findings. While ...
Astronomy
Mar 10, 2016
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China will move nearly 10,000 people to make way for the world's largest radio telescope which promises to help humanity search for alien life, state media reported on Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2016
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On the last day of May 2013 asteroid 1998 QE2 passed relatively closely by our planet, coming within 6 million kilometers… about 15 times the distance to the Moon. While there was never any chance of an impact by the 3 ...
Space Exploration
Jun 17, 2013
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There are some places astronomers dare not tread. One of the prime places is beyond the disk of our own galaxy where the numerous stars and clouds of dust along the line of sight make observations messy to say the least. ...
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2011
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Images of the near-Earth asteroid 2015 HM10 were captured by students and researchers participating in the NAIC/NRAO 8th Single-Dish Radio Astronomy School as it passed by Earth on Wednesday, July 8. The asteroid, coincidentally ...
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2015
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What is it like to make contact with a 36-year old dormant spacecraft?
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2014
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