News tagged with radio emissions

Radio stars: Caltech's astronomy professor searches for cosmic radio waves

Growing up in rural northwest Ireland, beyond the reach of city lights, Gregg Hallinan fell in love with the night sky. "When you didn't have bad weather, and you didn't have clouds, the skies were nothing ...

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Hot molecule explains cold chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprisingly, hydrogen cyanide and its far more energetic isomer, hydrogen isocyanide, are present in almost equal amounts in cold interstellar gas clouds. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The birth of a telescope 30 times larger than Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- On 15 November 2011, the Effelsberg 100-meter radio telescope, together with three Russian and one Ukrainian telescope, took part in the first interferometric observations with the orbiting ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

The high energy crab

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova. Its precursor star exploded in 1054 AD in an event that was recorded by Chinese and (quite probably) Anasazi Indian astronomers. It is called ...

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created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

An atlas of the Milky Way

Sino-German research group draws a new map at the Urumqi radio telescope and discovers two supernova remnants.

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created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Odd couple' binary makes dual gamma-ray flares

(PhysOrg.com) -- In December 2010, a pair of mismatched stars in the southern constellation Crux whisked past each other at a distance closer than Venus orbits the sun. The system possesses a so-far unique ...

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created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

CWRU law professor eyes prize-based incentives to generate climate innovation

Could a multi-million dollar prize spur the next big innovation in sustainable climate technology?

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created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Black holes spinning faster than ever before

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two UK astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the centre of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the Universe. Dr Alejo Martinez-Sansigre ...

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created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Astronomers can tune in to radio auroras to find exoplanets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting exoplanets that orbit at large distances from their star remains a challenge for planet hunters. Now, scientists at the University of Leicester have shown that emissions from the ...

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created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Cosmic radio beacons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because all cosmic objects evolve with time, astronomers sometimes have a difficult time deciding if two sources that seem different are actually related but just in different stages of life. ...

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created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Pushing the envelope

(PhysOrg.com) -- G327.1-1.1 is the aftermath of a massive star that exploded as a supernova in the Milky Way galaxy.

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created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

X-Ray Jets

(PhysOrg.com) -- The supermassive black holes that lie at the centers of galaxies can spawn tremendous bipolar jets of atomic particles.

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created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Cluster collisions switch on radio halos

(PhysOrg.com) -- This is a composite image of the northern part of the galaxy cluster Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth, showing the effects of a collision between two smaller galaxy ...

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created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why are sunspots a source of radio emissions? Researcher explains more

Why sunspots are a strong source of radio emissions and what information those emissions carry will be the focus of an invited talk by NJIT Research Professor Jeongwoo Lee tomorrow at the International Astronomical ...

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created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery of Saturn's auroral heartbeat

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists led by Dr Jonathan Nichols of the University of Leicester has discovered that Saturn’s aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn’s upper ...

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created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast