SKA sites in Australia and South Africa at night. 1 credit Construction of the world’s largest radio astronomy facility, the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), began on December 4. The observatory is a global project that has been going on for 30 years. With two enormous telescopes, one (low frequency) in Australia and the other …
Some of the synthetic images produced by the researchers show the hotspots spinning as an observer spins around the black hole’s spin axis. Credit: Crinquand et al Black holes, regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are among the most fascinating and studied cosmic phenomena. Although there are now countless …
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Construction of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), has officially begun in Australia after three decades of development. A huge intergovernmental effort, the SKA has been hailed as one of the greatest science projects of this century. It will allow scientists to go back to the beginning of the history …
LOGAN, Utah (ABC4) – A deep space radio built by Utah State Universityit is Spatial Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) is now orbiting the Moon in a program unlike any other in human history. The radio is part of a NASA mission called Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – or “CAPSTONE”. The USU-designed …
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