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After taking new radio observations, astronomers have ruled out a leading explanation for the cyclic nature of a particularly curious repeating space signal.

A telescope network that has spent years staring into deep space has finally delivered some of the most gloriously detailed images weve ever seen of other galaxies.

Astronomers have published the most detailed images seen of galaxies beyond our own yet, revealing their inner workings in unprecedented detail.

Astronomers have published the most detailed images yet seen of galaxies beyond our own, revealing their inner workings in unprecedented detail.  After almost a decade of work, the images were created from data collected by the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), a radio telescope. LOFAR is a network of more than 70,000 small antennae spread across nine European counties, with its core in Exloo, the Netherlands.  The new images push the boundaries of what we know about galaxies and supermassive bla...

University of Amsterdam Dr Jason Hessels has been appointed professor of Observational High-Energy Astrophysics, in particular Radio Astronomy at the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Jason Hessels (Photo: ASTRON) Hessels’ research focuses on using large radio telescopes to explore the astrophysics of some of the most energetic objects and phenomena in the Universe. Astronomical observations conducted using radio waves and radio telescopes (Radio Astronomy) play a criti...

Since fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered over a decade ago, scientists have puzzled over what could be generating these intense flashes of radio waves from outside of our galaxy. In a gradual process of elimination, the field of possible explanations has narrowed as new pieces of information are gathered about FRBs – how long they last, the frequencies of the radio waves detected, and so on. Now, a team led by McGill University researchers and members of Canada’s CHIME Fast Radi...

Last Updated: Scientists Come Up With More Credible Theories On Mysterious Fast Radio Burst Two scientists groups have been tasked with the mission to uncover the mysteries of the fast radio bust discovered last year. Here are the details. Scientists come up with more credible theories on the mysterious fast radio bust (Image Source: Astron) In 2007, astronomers had discovered some mysterious signals, named fast radio burst (FRB), a phenomenon that they cannot yet explain. According to E...

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are mysterious, powerful, and extremely brief emission of radio waves almost exclusively from beyond the Milky Way (here’s the exception). Some are believed to be associated with magnetars, extremely magnetic neutron stars, and several of them are known to repeat with regularity. Among them, there’s FRB 180916. Scientists have witnessed the pattern of emission repeat every 16 days or so and believe that the emitting magnetar is orbiting another star or that it is sp...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A burst from the periodically active repeating fast radio burst source 20180916B arrives at the LOFAR telescope. The higher frequency radio waves (purple) arrive earlier than the lower frequency radio... view more  Credit: Futselaar / ASTRON / Tendulkar Since fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered over a decade ago, scientists have puzzled over what could be generating these intense flashes of radio waves from outside of our galaxy. In a gradual process of elimi...

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