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HISTORY OF RADIO ASTRONOMY
In 1932, a Bell Labs engineer trying to solve mysterious static from transatlantic phone calls that repeated every 23 hours and 56 minutes accidentally discovered radio waves from the center of the Milky WayIn the early 1930s, Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky embarked on an investigation into transatlantic radio interference. By constructing a la...- A Latvian astronomer and his wife drove 190 miles to a secret Soviet ghost town in 1994; found a 600-ton telescope the Russians had poured acid on - adapted the Cold War machine built to spy on the West and listen to the starsAfter the retreat of Russian forces from Latvia, a concealed Soviet-era radio telescope came to light. Astronomer Juris Zhagars dedicated h...
- US Army in 1946 sent radar pulse towards moon and something astonishing happened 2.5 seconds laterThe year 1946 saw a remarkable feat by the US Army as they bounced radar signals off the Moon, demonstrating that radio waves can traverse ...
- Scientists uncover a hidden force shaping the Sun in breathtaking new imagesNew images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal swirling plasma patterns. Scientists have observed Kelvin-Helmholtz instability...
- Top Quote of the Day by Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Richard Feynman: Are we asking the right questions about our world? Life lessons from great scientists on curiosity, creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, discipline, innovation, personal growth, and how their revolutionary ideas guide modern progressToday's Top Quote of the Day by Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Richard Feynman: Human progress is driven not merely by discovering answe...
- If 3I/ATLAS isn’t an alien probe, why is it silent on radio signals but rich in methane from another star system?If 3I/ATLAS isn’t an alien probe, its discovery may be even more important. Scientists detected no radio signals from the interstellar come...
- In 1967, a Cambridge student found a strange signal every 1.3 seconds, and changed astronomy foreverA graduate student's meticulous review of radio telescope data in 1967 led to a groundbreaking discovery. Jocelyn Bell Burnell identified a...
- Artemis II is a triumph, but NASA’s ‘most ambitious’ mission carrying possible evidences of life may never returnNASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission plans to bring Martian rocks and soil to Earth. This project seeks to understand if Mars was, i...
- February 26, today in world history: Solar radio waves discovered, Gulf war ceasefire declared, Pokémon makes debutOn this day, significant events unfolded, including the discovery of solar radio waves in 1942, marking the birth of solar radio astronomy....
- The Hum of the Universe: Scientists Have Detected the Background Buzz of SpacetimeScientists have detected a persistent background hum of gravitational waves. This cosmic hum is a new way to explore the universe. It comes...
- New wave of curiosity about space among children; over 200 space startups have come up: PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged Shubhanshu Shukla's return from the ISS. He noted children's growing interest in space and the ri...
- 700 million Suns’ worth of power fired at Earth and it could destroy us? Here's what we knowAstronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns, located 12.9...
- I used to dream about big things, about being at NASA: Goutam ChattopadhyayGoutam Chattopadhyay, senior research scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, speaks about his humble start, the work that interests ...
- Zombie worlds: Five spooky planets orbiting dead starsStars with more than about eight times the mass of the Sun will typically burn through their fuel in less than 100 million years. Once fusi...
- Gravitational waves from neutron stars' merger just the beginningWashington, Oct 17 (IANS) In yet another interstellar feat, scientists at the LIGO detectors and the world over detected the first "ripples...
- Astronomers discover orbiting supermassive black holesSan Francisco, June 28 (IANS) In what is being hailed as a "groundbreaking discovery", astronomers have for the first time observed two sup...
- New method may detect 10 black holes per yearToronto, Dec 16 (IANS) With the help of a new method, researchers can detect roughly 10 black holes per year -- doubling the number current...
- Hinduism is based on logic; Sabarimala shrine must allow entry of women: Swami Bhoomananda TheerthaBhoomananda’s public interventions began with a protracted struggle to put an end to the popular ritual of singing obscene songs during the...
- Science Has a Lot to Learn from Religion & Vice Versa: Anil AnanthaswamyAnil divides his time between Bengaluru and the UK and is a visiting faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences. He spoke to ET...
- Scientists discover 5 billion light-years away galaxyThe galaxy was discovered in radio emission traveling to earth using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP).
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