National Radio Astronomy Observatory set to start prototype tests for ‘Next Gen VLA’

An icon of New Mexico, the Very Large Array (VLA) is due for an upgrade. Now years in the making, work on the next-generation antenna is getting ready to roll out. The ...
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Laser Breakthrough Sharpens Radio Telescope Views of Black Holes

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small targets, such as the regions around supermassive black holes, those telescopes ...
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Astronomers find the most distant and powerful radio circle

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery with the identification of the most powerful and distant “odd radio circle” (ORC) ever observed. This enigmatic cosmic structure challenges existing ...
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SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The planetary radar, built in 1960 in Crimea, from which the Morse signal 'MIR, Lenin, USSR' was sent in November 1962. National ...