Sentences with phrase «since radio astronomers»

Fast radio bursts, which astronomers refer to as FRBs, were first discovered in 2007, and in the years since radio astronomers have detected a few dozen of these events.

Not exact matches

Astronomers have known since 1968 that a pulsar — an ultradense neutron star left behind when the star's core collapsed — spins 30 times per second within the Crab's expanding cloud of debris, emitting a lighthouse beam of radio waves.

«Since gamma ray bursts are usually so well behaved, this really stood out,» says radio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Meradio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New MeRadio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Mexico.

One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years from Earth.

Since Lew Snyder and David Buhl discovered interstellar formaldehyde in 1969, astronomers have identified more than 150 molecules in deep space, mostly by using radio telescopes to detect the faint radiation the molecules emit.

Since joining the Observatory in 1989, Sue Ann has pioneered immersive, hands - on field trip opportunities such as the Radio Astronomer for a Day program that has served over 30,000 students.

The first serious SETI search was made in 1960 by the radio astronomer Frank Drake, and SETI has continued on the world's largest telescopes ever since.

Radio astronomers at Penticton have been striving towards this goal since the first days of the observatory.

The radio astronomers have observed the object on a near - daily basis since then, and that monitoring has revealed the burster's unexpected behavior.

In recent radio surveys at Parkes astronomers looking for new pulsars also found a new type of pulsed object since called Fast Radio Bursts (Fradio surveys at Parkes astronomers looking for new pulsars also found a new type of pulsed object since called Fast Radio Bursts (FRadio Bursts (FRBs).

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected 10 years ago.

Since their discovery ten years ago, fast radio bursts have confounded astronomers.

Quasars (short for quasi-stellar radio sources) have been objects of intrigue for astronomers ever since they were first detected in the 1960s.

Quasars — quasi-stellar radio sources — have been objects of intrigue for astronomers ever since they were first detected in the 1960s.

Since that first summer with teachers, the Observatory has offered Radio Astronomer for a Day to students in grades 5 - graduate school!

The idea had been kicking around since the 1920s, when Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest - scholar, first tentatively proposed it, but it didn't really become an active notion in cosmology until the mid-1960s when two young radio astronomers made an extraordinary and inadvertent discovery.