An artist’s impression of SKA-Low antenna arrays.Credit: DISR After 30 years of planning and negotiations, construction begins this week on the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the largest radio astronomy observatory in the world. The giant instrument – which will be built at sprawling sites in Australia and Africa – will collect radio signals from celestial …
The dish destroys the day it collapses.Photo: RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP (Getty Images) It happened in less than 10 seconds, two years ago today: the 300 meters of the Arecibo observatory the satellite dish collapsed, eliminating one of the world’s most renowned sources of radio sightings. During its 57 years of operation in northern Puerto Rico, the …
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An aerial photo of the destroyed radio dish. The dish destroys the day it collapses. It happened in less than 10 seconds, two years ago today: Arecibo Observatory’s 300-meter radio dish collapsed, eliminating one of the most renowned sources of radio observations. in the world. During its 57 years of operation in northern Puerto Rico, …
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Most galaxies are built around huge black holes. While many of them are relatively docile, like the one at the center of our Milky Way, some are ferocious – gobbling up surrounding material and releasing huge jets of extremely bright high-energy particles far into space. Using data from the recently deployed Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer …
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