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Scientists make first discovery using revolutionary long wavelength demonstrator array

Scientists make first discovery using revolutionary long wavelength demonstrator array

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Scientists from NRL's Space Science and Remote Sensing Divisions, in collaboration with researchers from the University of New Mexico and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory located in Socorro, N.M., ...


Allen Telescope Array begins all-sky surveys

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With commissioning of the 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) nearly complete, UC Berkeley astronomers are now embarking on several major radio astronomy projects, including daily surveys of ...





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Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

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created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms ...


Rare radio supernova in nearby galaxy is nearest supernova in five years

Rare radio supernova in nearby galaxy is nearest supernova in five years

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created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The chance discovery last month of a rare radio supernova - an exploding star seen only at radio wavelengths and undetected by optical or X-ray telescopes - underscores the promise of new, ...


Brown Dwarfs Beaming Like Pulsars

Brown Dwarfs Beaming Like Pulsars

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created Apr 18, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Brown dwarfs, thought just a few years ago to be incapable of emitting any significant amounts of radio waves, have been discovered putting out extremely bright "lighthouse beams" of radio waves, much like ...


Continent-sized radio telescope takes close-ups of Fermi active galaxies

Continent-sized radio telescope takes close-ups of Fermi active galaxies

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created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An international team of astronomers has used the world's biggest radio telescope to look deep into the brightest galaxies that NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can see. The study solidifies the link ...


MIT to lead development of new telescopes on moon

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created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. The agency announced ...


Saturn’s radio emissions and bright auroras are linked

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created Feb 17, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just as the static on an AM radio grows louder with the approach of a summer lightning storm, strong radio emissions accompany bright auroral spots -- similar to Earth’s northern lights -- on the planet Saturn, according ...


Farms, Fertilizers and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Farms, Fertilizers and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are front and center in finding out how farming affects emissions of the green house nitrous oxide (N2O).


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Cassini cameras spot powerful new lightning storm on Saturn

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created Feb 14, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Following the recent detection of Saturnian radio bursts by NASA's Cassini spacecraft that indicated a rare and powerful atmospheric storm, Cassini imaging scientists have spotted the storm in an unlikely fashion: ...


Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources

Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources

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created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 ...


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Cassini Reveals Saturn's Eerie-Sounding Radio Emissions

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created Jul 25, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Saturn's radio emissions could be mistaken for a Halloween sound track. That's how two researchers describe their recent findings, published in the July 23 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters. Their pape ...



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