Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluster — the 20-million-light-year-wide cloud around...

Dec 3, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array, an international experiment that uses the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in South Africa, have uncovered further...

Aug 5, 2024 by News Staff

Using data from the MeerKAT radio telescope and NSF’s Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered ten new millisecond plusars in the globular cluster...

Feb 20, 2024 by News Staff

Using new 21-cm radio observations made with NSF’s Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered over 250 neutral gaseous clouds being blasted out...

Jun 5, 2023 by News Staff

These mysterious structures likely originated a few million years ago when an outflow from Sagittarius A* — a supermassive black hole in the center...

May 31, 2022 by News Staff

Radio-emitting neutron stars are objects with spin periods ranging from milliseconds to tens of seconds; as they age and spin more slowly, their radio...

May 3, 2022 by News Staff

PSR J0523-7125, a highly circularly polarized, variable, steep-spectrum pulsar located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is the brightest extragalactic pulsar...

Apr 8, 2022 by News Staff

LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1 is the most distant megamaser of its kind ever detected. The three-color optical image of the host galaxy of the LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1...

Mar 22, 2022 by News Staff

Odd Radio Circles are large, circular astronomical objects which are bright around the edges at radio wavelengths. Theories on what causes these mysterious...

Feb 3, 2022 by News Staff

The new image from the MeerKAT telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) in Cape Town, South Africa, shows nearly 1,000 magnetized...

Feb 2, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image from the MeerKAT telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) in Cape Town, South Africa, shows radio emission from numerous...

Oct 12, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using CSIRO’s ASKAP and South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT radio telescopes have discovered and characterized ASKAP J173608.2-321635,...

May 28, 2021 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, an astronomer from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has...

Jan 20, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa, have discovered two new radio...

May 8, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa, have solved a longstanding mystery...

Dec 25, 2019 by News Staff

A new radio image from the MeerKAT telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa, presents a wide portrait of the...

Nov 20, 2019 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory have spotted an object which rapidly brightened by more than a...

Sep 12, 2019 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory have spotted a pair of enormous radio-emitting bubbles in the...