by admin | Mar 3, 2020 | News
If an alien civilization were trying to contact us here on Earth, how would they do it? In the 1997 movie “Contact,” the fictional alien signal came via radio waves, detected by a large radio …Powered by...
by admin | Feb 29, 2020 | News
University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA’s …Powered by...
by admin | Feb 28, 2020 | News
Astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has a knack for finding exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars outside of our solar system.Powered by...
by admin | Feb 24, 2020 | News
It is the correlator that lets dozens of antenna dishes act as a single telescope. It has taken decades to refine and improve radio interferometry, but it has become a common tool for radio astronomy.Powered by...
by admin | Feb 24, 2020 | News
Once the panels have chewed these ideas over, they’ll pass them along to a committee, which will prepare a public report. This report basically dictates astronomy’s near-term trajectory: Agencies like …Powered by...