When we turn our radio telescopes out toward space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating …
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Space
Starlink Satellites Interfere With Our Most Sensitive Radio Telescopes
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWhen I was a child in the 1970s, seeing satellites pass overhead in the night sky was a …
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Space
We Traced a Powerful Fast Radio Burst to the Most Distant Source Yet
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesEvery day and night, hundreds of thousands of intense, brief flashes of radiation suddenly flicker on and then …
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Astronomers have been working to better understand the galactic environments of fast radio bursts (FRBs) — intense, momentary …
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Space
Silent as the Night: Why Radio Astronomy Doesn’t Listen to the Sky
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn the 1997 movie Contact, Ellie Arroway is a young radio astronomy scientist played by Jodie Foster. Ellie’s on …
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Space
Breakthrough Listen Scans Milky Way Galaxy for Beacons of Civilization
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe Breakthrough Listen Initiative released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane …
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We’ve been staring at the stars and wondering what was up there for centuries. We’ve been using mirrors …