Tag Archive for 'Arecibo radio telescope'

This image shows the Sb-type spiral galaxy SDSS J043703.67+245606.8. Image credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Detected in Distant Spiral Galaxy

Mar 12, 2021 by News Staff

Using the Arecibo and Gemini observatories, astronomers have detected a mobile supermassive black hole in a galaxy called SDSS J043703.67+245606.8 (hereafter...

Range-Doppler radar image (colorized) of the binary near-Earth asteroid 2020 BX12. Image credit: Arecibo Observatory.

Arecibo Observatory Reveals Near-Earth Asteroid 2020 BX12 Has Large Moon

Feb 20, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using a radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory have captured the first images of the recently-discovered near-Earth asteroid 2020 BX12....

A bi-static radar image of the binary asteroid 2017 YE5 from the Arecibo Observatory and the Green Bank Observatory on June 25, 2018. Image credit: Arecibo / GBO / NSF / NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Astronomers Spot Rare Binary Asteroid: 2017 YE5

Jul 13, 2018 by News Staff

New observations by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar in California, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia...

These colorized radar images show the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon. At time of closest approach on December 16, 2017, Phaethon was about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million km) away. The encounter is the closest the asteroid will come to Earth until 2093. Image credit: Arecibo Observatory / NASA / NSF.

Astronomers Obtain Images of Near-Earth Asteroid Phaethon

Dec 26, 2017 by News Staff

A sequence of radar images of the near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon was obtained in December 2017 by astronomers using the NASA-funded planetary radar...

The Weird! Signal. Instead of emanating from Ross 128, the most likely source of the signal is a satellite orbiting the Earth. Image credit: Planetary Habitability Laboratory, University of Puerto Rico.

‘Weird!’ Signal from Ross 128 isn’t from Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Astronomers Say

Jul 23, 2017 by News Staff

Professor Abel Méndez, Director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory and a planetary astrobiologist at the University of Puerto Rico, and colleagues...

Ross 128 (center), also known as HIP 57548 or IRAS 11451+0105, is a red dwarf star. It has 15% of the mass of the Sun and 21% of the Sun’s radius, but generates energy so slowly that it has only 0.036% of the Sun’s visible luminosity. Image credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Arecibo Observatory’s Radio Telescope Detects Strange Signals from Nearby Star Ross 128

Jul 18, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using the 305-m (1,000-foot) radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, recently detected ‘strange’ signals coming from Ross...

Astronomers Detect Repeating Fast Radio Burst

Mar 2, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, astronomers have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves — so-called fast radio bursts — coming from an extremely...

This image shows Stephan's Quintet - NGC 7317, NGC 7318a, NGC 7318b and NGC 7319 - a compact group of galaxies located about 280 million light years away. A prominent foreground galaxy called NGC 7320 is not a member of the group. Image credit: X-ray – NASA / CXC / CfA / E.O'Sullivan; optical - Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope / Coelum.

Astronomers Say Galaxies in Groups are Running out of Fuel

Nov 25, 2013 by News Staff

A team of scientists using the Arecibo radio telescope measured the hydrogen content of 250 galaxies located in different environments to show that galaxies...