Do advanced civilizations know we're here?
Adrift in a great sea of stars, we must surely not be alone.
Adrift in a great sea of stars, we must surely not be alone.
Astronomy
Sep 1, 2023
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Repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious radio transient sources in the universe that emit a repeating radio pulse lasting for a few milliseconds. Plasma lensing is the cold, non-magnetized, and inhomogeneous plasma ...
Astronomy
Sep 1, 2023
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An international research team led by Silke Britzen from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has investigated blazars, accreting supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. Blazars show ...
Astronomy
Aug 31, 2023
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Many songbirds use the Earth's magnetic field as a guide during their migrations, but radio waves interfere with this ability. A new study published has found an upper bound for the frequency that disrupts the magnetic compass.
Ecology
Aug 28, 2023
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Using the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR), astronomers from the University of Bologna, Italy and elsewhere, have conducted radio observations of the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 2142. In result, they detected a new component of ...
A team of space scientists at the Planetary Science Institute, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen University and the University of Aberdeen, has used data from China's Chang'E-4 rover to ...
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. Han Jinlin from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has detected distinct ...
Astronomy
Aug 17, 2023
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NASA's Europa Clipper is designed to seek out conditions suitable for life on an ice-covered moon of Jupiter. On Aug. 14, the spacecraft received a piece of hardware central to that quest: the massive dish-shaped high-gain ...
Space Exploration
Aug 15, 2023
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What do you feel when you see the aurora?
Planetary Sciences
Aug 15, 2023
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The hunt for alien life and its radio signals from beyond our solar system is still coming up dry. But, it's not for lack of looking for possible advanced civilizations.
Astronomy
Aug 15, 2023
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