Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – A student at New Mexico State University is showing how you can use pretty much anything to create something. Saul Hernandez made a radio telescope that can detect the ...
When you think of a radio telescope, you usually think of a giant dish antenna pointing skyward. But [vhuvanmakes] built Wavy-Scope, a handheld radio telescope that can find the Sun and the Moon, ...
From 9,000 feet up on the driest place on Earth, Michael Thorburn is helping to build a radio telescope that is eavesdropping on the darkest secrets of the universe. It is called the Atacama Large ...
After Arecibo collapsed, radio astronomers faced a choice: rebuild the past, or build something radical. One bold idea is the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope—using a 3–5 km crater to hold a 1 km ...
The world’s biggest and most iconic radio telescopes are joining forces with a bold aim – to make new images of black holes and their surroundings, in detail and in new colours. In Sweden, Chalmers ...
For radio astronomy, things get even better during the lunar night, when the sun drops beneath the horizon and is blocked by the moon’s mass. For up to 14 Earth-days at a time, a spot on the moon’s ...