In the summer of 1935, construction began on a second tower that would be twice as tall as the first, with a 30-foot underground well that allowed the telescope to capture longer paths of sunlight.

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As their name implies, FRBs are brief, intense bursts of radio waves. The first was detected in 2007, and since then astronomers have spotted thousands of others, including some within our own galaxy.

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In addition to the NICER repairs, Williams and Hague will also perform several maintenance tasks, including removing outdated radio communication equipment and collecting ... challenge but also a ...

Using radio telescopes, astronomers can "see" pulses ... involved in this paper but who was part of the team who found the first long-period radio transient, 6.45 hours stretches "our ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured photos of ... structure of the interstellar dust and gas for the first time. "We were pretty shocked to see this level of detail," Jacob ...

This discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, pushes the boundaries of what we thought possible. Our slow lighthouse also happens to be aligned with Earth in a way that lets us see radio pulses from ...

Back in 2018, the black hole first made news when it suddenly increased ... so this is where we went all in on basically trying to grab every radio telescope and get it to look at this source." ...

At first, we had no idea the source was emitting ... and the highly sensitive MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. A long ASKAP observation eventually revealed two pulses separated by 6.5 ...