Less than 1% of the world’s biggest radio telescope is complete – but its first image reveals a sky dotted with ancient galaxies
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...
Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
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‘Milestone’ as Square Kilometre Array Observatory releases its first low-frequency image of the cosmos
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory has released the first images from its partially built low-frequency telescope in Australia, known as SKA-Low. The new SKA-Low image was created using 1024 ...
First space image taken by the SKA-Low telescope exceeds expectations
In the red dirt of outback Western Australia, a world-leading radio telescope has captured its first image and scientists say ...
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Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio signal that repeats every 2 hours
Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...
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Space agency joins project for world's largest radio telescope
By Kim Seon Ah The country is joining an international project to build the largest radio telescope in human history. The ...
Rare galaxy revealed in ‘better than expected’ first image from billion-dollar SKA telescope in WA’s Murchison
The first image captured by the unfinished SKA-Low radio telescope in WA’s Murchison region has revealed a rare galaxy with a ...
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First radio pulses traced to dead-star binary
Astronomers detected constant stream of radio pulses emitted from across the galaxy. Team now finds the pulses are from a ...
Observations of a nearby pulsar wind nebula reveal a radio jet feature with a helical magnetic field inside
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...
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Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the archives of the Low-Frequency Array telescope, or LOFAR, a network of ...