Radio astronomy

Astronomers have located the origin of mysterious radio waves that have baffled them for a decade. The fast radio burst, or FRB 121102, has been traced to a faint, dwarf galaxy three billion light-…

The National Science Foundation has backed away from three of its headlining radio telescopes in the last decade. What comes next?

A new radio wave map of the Milky Way Galaxy is our most detailed yet and will be the basis for further study of the Milky Way for years to come.

Cambridge Core - Observational Astronomy, Techniques and Instrumentation - An Introduction to Radio Astronomy

Clever engineering and electronics allow radio astronomers to build up images from the focused observations these telescopes make.

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The sky could be filled with brief blasts of energy that will help reveal the universe in greater detail.

Many strong sources of radio waves are invisible in normal light, so looking at radio waves reveals a completely different picture of our universe. Even objects like the Sun and planets can reveal new features when viewed with radio telescopes, like Jodrell Bank. Radio waves are also better at travelling long distances than shorter wavelengths, so we can get clearer signals from very distant objects in radio than we can in normal light. www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/20937803