Sentences with phrase «signal radio astronomers»

It packed as much energy in its mere 5 - millisecond duration as the sun puts out in a month, making it by far the strongest, quickest signal radio astronomers have observed, although it wasn't nearly as powerful as the elusive gamma ray bursts that populate the universe.

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Radio astronomers search instead for the gravitational signals from these binaries.

For astronomers who observe the universe through radio waves generated by stars and galaxies, interference from an Earth - based source can easily drown out any far - off signal.

If the signals generated were transmitted only from the ground, radio astronomers could seek remote sites and use the shielding property of the Earth's curvature or the shelter of hills.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

Astronomers seeking mysterious fast radio bursts have traced one back to its host galaxy — and found such signals could have more than one type of source

SIX years ago, radio astronomers discovered an area of about a million square kilometres on the equator of Mars that does not reflect radar signals.

Lawrence Rudnick, the astronomer who led the team that found the void, was studying data from the Very Large Array, a network of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico, when he spotted a gap in the constellation Eridanus where radio signals from galaxies appear unusually faint.

That's key to detecting precession, because during each eclipse astronomers can determine the precise angle of the radio signal and therefore the pulsar's wobble over time.

Whatever caused the signal, «it's bound to be exciting,» says radio astronomer Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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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.

ASKAP also gives astronomers a very large «net» with which to trawl for signals — a chunk of radio spectrum to search through that's 300 MHz wide.

Astronomers from MIT and ASU have detected faint radio signals coming from the Cosmic Dawn — the time when the first stars began to flicker on (Credit: CSIRO Australia)

(Inside Science)-- After spending nearly two decades listening to the skies with radio telescopes, astronomers have finally detected a long - sought - after and subtle signal from the early universe.

Now, astronomers from MIT and Arizona State University have peered right back to the «Cosmic Dawn» — the time when the first stars were beginning to fire up — by picking up an extremely faint radio signal that marks the earliest evidence of hydrogen, just 180 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have now peered right back to the «Cosmic Dawn» — when the first stars were beginning to fire up — by picking up an extremely faint radio signal that marks the earliest evidence of hydrogen, just 180 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers jumped on the chance to check Oumuamua for radio signals that would indicate it was communicating with aliens, but the search has so far found only quiet.

In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake (father of Science News writer Nadia Drake) was among the first to listen for extraterrestrial radio signals.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's newly commissioned Green Bank Telescope have detected remarkably faint radio signals from an 820 year - old pulsar, making it the youngest radio - emitting pulsar known.

So it becomes really interesting when a signal with few natural explanations is detected and, according to astronomer Nick Suntzeff of Texas A&M University in an interview with Ars Technica, a radio signal at this frequency is, well, «strange.»

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) newly commissioned Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have detected remarkably faint radio signals from an 820 year - old pulsar, making it the youngest radio - emitting pulsar known.

Also, astronomers familiar with the signal are considering the possibility of a microlensing event — a distant radio source may have been momentarily amplified by HD164595 through the warping of spacetime, creating a cosmic lens, making the radio signal look like a suspect radio burst.

Astronomers using the Russian RATAN - 600 radio telescope have recorded «a strong signal in the direction of HD164595,» according to Centauri Dreams» Paul Gilster who has access to a document that is currently circulating behind the scenes.

«Just as the antenna of your car radio can detect local radio stations no matter where they are around the car, these antennas can detect signals anywhere in the sky,» said Joseph Lazio, an astronomer on the project from JPL.

In Socorro, astronomers and computer scientists used a special - purpose computer to digitally combine the signals from the satellite and the ground telescopes to make them all work together as a single, giant radio telescope.

Beginning on April 6, 1965, radio astronomers Gordon Pettengill and Rolf Dyce used the large 305 - meter (1,000 - foot) radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico to bounce radio signals off the planet.

Astronomers using the RATAN - 600 radio telescope in the Russian Republic of Karachay - Cherkessia have detected an unusual signal emanating from a star located about 94 light - years from Earth.

Renamed the Green Bank Interferometer, this pair's interference (fringe) patterns were very good, showing astronomers the periodic changes in radio signals from objects that dimmed and brightened over time.

On May 3, 2007, team of astronomers (including Jean - Luc Margot; Stan Peale; Igor V. Holin; Raymond F. Jurgens; and Martin A. Slade) announced new evidence that Mercury has a partially molten core using new observations of fluctuations in Mercury's spin obtained with radar signals bounced off the planet from Earth (with the 305 - meter Arecibo, the 34 - meter Goldstone, and the 100 - meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescopes).

Astronomers believe that these are spinning neutron stars (extremely dense objects formed from the collapse of massive stars) with strong magnetic fields that emit radio signals in one direction.

The fast - growing next - gen mobile network may threaten future radio astronomers» ability to detect signals from space.

In 2009, French astronomers observed what was thought to be a weak radio signal from an exoplanet five times bigger than the Earth.

Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen), a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star 14 light years from Earth.