This object in space flashed brilliantly for 3 months, then disappeared. Astronomers are intrigued
"Holy sharks, Batman, it's periodic!" I exclaimed on Slack.
Astronomy
Jan 27, 2022
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News tagged with radio waves
A volcanic eruption in 2020 led to hours-long thunderstorm
A study conducted by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Vaisala Inc., published yesterday in the Geological Society of America's journal Geology, discusses how ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2022
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Tonga eruption: we are watching for ripples of it in space
The ongoing volcanic eruption in Tonga began in December 2021, but it wasn't until 5:15pm local time on January 15 2022 that the powerful explosion occurred. It generated an enormous cloud of ash, earthquakes, and tsunamis ...
Environment
Jan 19, 2022
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Black hole devours a star decades ago, goes unnoticed until now
Every galaxy, including our own Milky Way, has at its center a massive black hole whose gravity influences the stars around it. Generally, the stars orbit around the black hole without incident, but sometimes a star will ...
Astronomy
Jan 11, 2022
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Chemists use DNA to build the world's tiniest antenna
Researchers at Université de Montréal have created a nanoantenna to monitor the motions of proteins. Reported this week in Nature Methods, the device is a new method to monitor the structural change of proteins over time—and ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 10, 2022
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Coherent interstellar magnetic field detected
Magnetic fields are the essential, but often "secret" ingredients of the interstellar medium and the process of making stars. The secrecy shrouding interstellar magnetic fields can be attributed to the lack of experimental ...
Astronomy
Jan 5, 2022
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Real-time alert system heralds new era in fast radio burst research
McGill University scientists have developed a new system for sharing the enormous amount of data being generated by the CHIME radio telescope in its search for fast radio bursts (FRBs), the puzzling extragalactic phenomenon ...
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2022
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Astronomers capture black hole eruption spanning 16 times the full Moon in the sky
Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth.
Astronomy
Dec 22, 2021
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Einstein's theory passes rigorous 16-year tests (Update)
An international team has used telescopes around the world, including CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope—Murriyang, to complete the most challenging tests yet of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
General Physics
Dec 13, 2021
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Challenging Einstein's greatest theory with extreme stars
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the University of Manchester have helped conduct a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein's theory of general relativity.
General Physics
Dec 13, 2021
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