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NASA is moving forward with an ambitious vision to place a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon, in a remote lunar ...
Once the world’s largest radio telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico unlocked the mysteries of the cosmos. But by ...
Fast radio bursts ... From February to July 2024, the CHIME radio telescope array in Canada detected 22 bursts from an FRB dubbed FRB 20240209A. Six of those bursts were also detected nearly ...
The telltale quick flash of a fast radio burst named FRB 20221022A captured the attention of an international team of researchers in 2022 when CHIME first detected it. The radio telescope ...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs ... but is sensitive to many of the wavelengths that make up an FRB. Unlike most radio telescopes, which focus on small points in the sky, CHIME scans a huge area, allowing ...
But, just what are fast radio bursts, and why should we care about ... it must be very bright. Once an FRB is detected, astronomers use optical telescopes—like our Shane Telescope at Lick ...
Two NASA X-ray telescopes were watching recently when a fast radio burst (FRB) erupted from a stellar remnant some 30,000 light-years away. The data from this event could finally help scientists ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has tracked the most powerful ... The galactic gathering launched out this fast radio burst (FRB) — which in a millisecond released the equivalent of our sun's total ...
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the host galaxy of an exceptionally powerful fast radio burst, FRB 20220610A. Hubble’s sensitivity and sharpness reveals a compact group of multiple galaxies ...
The fast radio burst of June 10, 2022, however, was in a league of its own. Subsequent observations by the Very Large Telescope in Chile suggested that the FRB came from very far away and packed ...