"We got all excited, thinking we had discovered an unknown object in the vicinity of the Earth," said Clancy James, an associate professor at Curtin University's Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy in Western Australia.. . The data James and his colleagues were looking at came from the ASKAP radio telescope, an array of 36 dish antennas in Wajarri Yamaji Country, each about three stories tall ...
The whole signal is about 30 nanoseconds, or 30 billionths of a second, but the main part is just about three nanoseconds, and that's actually at the limit of what our instrument can see," James said ...
topThe whole signal is about 30 nanoseconds, or 30 billionths of a second, but the main part is just about three nanoseconds, and that's actually at the limit of what our instrument can see,"...
top... object in the vicinity of the Earth," said Clancy James, an associate professor at Curtin University's Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy in Western Australia.. . The data James and his colleagues were looking at came from the ASKAP radio telescope, an array of 36 dish antennas in Wajarri Yamaji Country, each...
topThe data James and his colleagues were looking at came from the ASKAP radio telescope, an array of 36 dish antennas in Wajarri Yamaji Country, each about three stories tall.
top"We got all excited, thinking we had discovered an unknown object in the vicinity of the Earth," said Clancy James, an associate professor at Curtin University's Curtin Institute...
top"The signal was about 2,000 or 3,000 times brighter than all the other radio data our (instrument) detects - it was by far the brightest thing in the sky, by a factor of thousands.".
topAstronomers believe these bursts may come from magnetars, according to James. These objects are very dense remnants of dead stars with powerful magnetic fields.
topAnd we got a pretty exact match for this old satellite called Relay 2 - there are databases that you can look up to work out where any given satellite should be, and there were no other satellites anywhere near,"...
top... discovered an unknown object in the vicinity of the Earth," said Clancy James, an associate professor at Curtin University's Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy in Western Australia.. . The data James and his colleagues were looking at came from the ASKAP radio telescope, an array of 36 dish antennas in Wajarri Yamaji Country,...
topIt was an updated version of Relay 1, which lifted off two years earlier and was used to relay signals between the US and Europe and broadcast the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
topIt was an updated version of Relay 1, which lifted off two years earlier and was used to relay signals between the US and Europe and broadcast the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
topWhat actually produced this anyway.'". . A massive short-circuit. NASA launched Relay 2, an experimental communications satellite, into orbit in 1964. It was an updated version of Relay 1, which lifted off two years earlier and was used to relay signals between the US...
topIt was an updated version of Relay 1, which lifted off two years earlier and was used to relay signals between the US and Europe and broadcast the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
topLong wavelengths (redder colors) are slowed down compared to shorter, bluer wavelengths, allowing astronomers to "weigh" the otherwise invisible ordinary matter.
top... at the University of Manchester in the UK, who was also not involved with the work, agrees that the proposed mechanism is feasible, noting that spark discharges from GPS satellites have been detected before.. . The study illustrates how astronomers must take care to not confuse radio bursts from astrophysical...
topRalph Spencer, Professor Emeritus of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester in the UK, who was also not involved with the work, agrees that the proposed mechanism is feasible, noting that spark discharges from GPS...
topTo try to answer that question, the astronomers wrote a paper on their analysis, set to publish Monday in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
top... in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in mid-June - one near our planet and so powerful that, for a moment, it outshined everything else in the sky.
topLong wavelengths (redder colors) are slowed down compared to shorter, bluer wavelengths, allowing astronomers to "weigh" the otherwise invisible ordinary matter.
topRalph Spencer, Professor Emeritus of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester in the UK, who was also not involved with the work, agrees that the proposed mechanism is feasible, noting that spark...
topBut could a dead satellite suddenly come back to life after decades of silence.. . To try to answer that question, the astronomers wrote a paper on their analysis, set to publish Monday in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters