News tagged with vlbi
Radio-astronomers form telescope the size of Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Radio telescopes around the world will join forces this week to carry out a unique observation of three quasars, distant galaxies powered by super-massive black holes at their cores.
Jan 13, 2009 |
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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 ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Astronomers simulate real-time telescope as big as the world to study peculiar active galaxy
Using a perfectly orchestrated world-wide network of radio telescopes, astronomers have produced a high-resolution map of an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) belonging to an unknown class of gamma-ray sources. The unusual source ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Phobos flyby images (w/ Video)
Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars' rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the proposed landing ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Chang'E-1 has blazed a new trail in China's deep space exploration
A huge amount of scientific data have been accumulated by the CE-1 lunar orbiter. Using laser altimeter data, Jinsong Ping and Qian Huang et al obtained improved 3D lunar topography, and based on this, they ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky with Extreme Precision
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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New Celestial Map Gives Directions for GPS
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigator. GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in your GPS navigator, which ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Network creates virtual super-telescope
Vast quantities of data are transferred in real time from telescopes around the world to a supercomputer in the Netherlands, where European researchers combine the information to create high-resolution images ...
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at ...
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Arecibo joins global network to create 6,000-mile telescope
On May 22, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico joined other telescopes in North America, South America, Europe and Africa in simultaneously observing the same targets, simulating a telescope more than 6,800 miles (almost 11,000 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2008 |
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Radio astronomers detect 'baby quasar' near the edge of the visible Universe
An international group of radio astronomers has found an unexpected morphology in the most distant radio quasar ever. This was done using the world's most sensitive network of radio telescopes called the European ...
Jun 06, 2008 |
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