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Special Talk: Flashes in the Sky—The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts
West Virginia astronomers share the origin of their discovery and hopes for future research
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Can Astronomers Use Radar to Spot a Cataclysmic Asteroid?
Scientists share their latest findings and the future of radar in planetary science and defense
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Astronomers Discover Most Massive Neutron Star—or Least Massive Black Hole
Green Bank Telescope helps MeerKAT uncover a mysterious object at the boundary between black holes and neutron stars
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Massive Gas Clouds Escape Center of Milky Way
Green Bank Telescope Discovers Hundreds of Clouds Blasting into Interstellar Space
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Mystery of Star Formation Revealed by Hearts of Molecular Clouds
Data from the World’s Largest Radio Telescopes Holds Clues
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Astronomers Accidentally Discover Dark Primordial Galaxy
Could Be the Faintest Galaxy Found to Date
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Most sensitive search for intelligent life beyond our galaxy to date
Breakthrough Listen presents the most sensitive search for powerful signals beyond the MilkyWay
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New type of Fast Radio Burst discovered in Green Bank Telescope data
Eight ultra-fast bursts lasted only ten millionths of a second or less An international team of researchers have discovered radio pulses from the distant universe that last only millionths of a second. They found these microsecond bursts after a meticulous examination of archival data from the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope. It’s unclear how…