radio telescopes
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CSIRO Finds Most Distant Fast Radio Burst (and It Offers a Way to Weigh the Universe)
The unprecedented signal likely comes from a set of merging galaxies eight billion light-years away.
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China Publishes, Then Deletes Report of Potential Alien Signals
Yesterday, Science and Technology Daily, a state-backed media outlet in China, published what could have been an exciting piece of news: Researchers recorded radio signals that looked like evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Rogue blips from an advanced alien civilisation made their way to Earth? Well, probably not, because the twist here isn’t that we may…
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Construction Of The World’s Biggest Radio Telescope Is Officially Underway
The construction of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory is finally scheduled to begin next month, after the project spent seven years in the design and engineering phase. When it’s completed, the SKA Observatory will be the biggest radio telescope on Earth, with a collecting area that will cover over one kilometre.
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Intriguing ‘Life’ Signal on Venus Was Plain Old Sulphur Dioxide, New Research Suggests
Scientists stunned the world last year by claiming to have discovered traces of phosphine in the Venusian clouds. New research suggests this gas — which, excitingly, is produced by microbes — was not actually responsible for the signal they detected. Instead, it was likely sulphur dioxide, a not-so-thrilling chemical.