These machines don't sleep —
they record radio waves all day, every day.
In 2009, astronomers
recorded radio waves coming from the HAT - P - 11 system that ceased when the planet slipped behind its star, suggesting the planet was the source of the signal.
Not exact matches
If astronomers act quickly, they can turn other instruments toward the point of origin and
record a rapidly fading afterglow of x-rays, visible light and
radio waves.
Among the more unique data sets collected by Juno during its first scientific sweep by Jupiter was that acquired by the mission's
Radio / Plasma Wave Experiment (
Waves), which
recorded ghostly - sounding transmissions emanating from above the planet.
Just a few days later, on Sept. 5, members of the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) team made an audio
recording of
radio waves in the belts, at a frequency audible to humans, known as «chorus.»
This detection follows 11 previously
recorded outbursts of
radio waves from the same location, the only known repeater in a class of enigmatic eruptions known as fast
radio bursts.
The
record - sharp observations reveal a compact and surprisingly slowly moving source of
radio waves, with details published in a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Ten blasts of
radio waves recorded last May and June all come from the same direction, researchers report online March 2 in Nature.
The
radio wave signals emitted by e.g. the hot plasma surrounding the black hole are
recorded separately at the individual telescopes.
«We
record the electromagnetic
waves at the individual [
radio telescope] stations,» continues Broderick.
Of course one can hardly discuss Beaches without bringing up «Wind Beneath My Wings,» its signature song that dominated
radio waves, garnered 1988's Grammies for Song of the Year and
Record of the Year, and took on a life of its own.
Stereo
radios that can tune to the short -
wave band and
record broadcasts to internal memory or an SD card, however, are much more rare.