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Astronomers have used the world's largest and most sensitive low-frequency radio telescope array LOFAR (or Low-Frequency Array), to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 ...

The radio source belongs to a new class of celestial entities, called long-period radio transients.

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A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can ...

While the scientific community grapples with the loss of the Arecibo radio telescope, astronomers who recently revived a long-dormant radio telescope array in Argentina hope it can help modestly ...

In this field, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile stands out as one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes. Using its 66 parabolic antennas, ALMA observes the ...

A giant galaxy measuring 3.3 million light-years across has been found by astronomers using the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, an array of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park in the ...

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 ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...