Tag Archive for 'Parkes radio telescope'

An artist’s impression of the radio magnetar XTE J1810-197. Image credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav / Swinburne University of Technology.

Astronomers Detect Unusual Radio Pulses from Nearby Magnetar

Apr 8, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope (Murriyang) have detected unusual radio signals from XTE J1810-197, a radio magnetar (ultra-magnetic...

The highly variable magnetic field around the source of FRB 20190520B. Image credit: Di Li / ScienceApe / CAS.

Astronomers Detect Highly Variable Magnetic Field around Source of Repeating Fast Radio Burst

May 12, 2023 by News Staff

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief flashes of radio waves from distant galaxies that are probably emitted by neutron stars. Some FRBs repeat, which enables...

A part of the Galactic plane as seen by the ASKAP radio telescope and the Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang, showing supernova remnants and the space between the stars. Image credit: R. Kothes, NRC / PEGASUS Team.

Radio Astronomers Discover New Supernova Remnants in Milky Way Galaxy

Jan 17, 2023 by News Staff

Using the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes in Australia, astronomers have observed a large section of the Galactic plane of the Milky Way. A part of the...

This image shows the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is a satellite of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: Pingel et al., arXiv: 2111.05339.

Astronomers Snap New Radio Image of Small Magellanic Cloud

Dec 24, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of radio astronomers has assembled the most sensitive and detailed view of the neutral hydrogen emission associated with a nearby dwarf galaxy called...

An artist’s impression of the Proxima Centauri system. Image credit: Lorenzo Santinelli.

Signal of Interest from Proxima Centauri Was Not Alien Technosignature, Astronomers Say

Oct 26, 2021 by Natali Anderson

In 2019, astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project observed Proxima Centauri using CSIRO’s Parkes ‘Murriyang’ radio telescope. They detected...

An artist’s impression of the ASKAP J173608.2-321635 source. Image credit: Sebastian Zentilomo.

Astronomers Find Strange Source of Radio Waves near Milky Way’s Center

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,...

An optical color image of the stellar field centered on HIP 109427, an A1-type star located 89 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus, from the Pan-STARRS survey, showing the target fields of Green Bank and Parkes receivers, circled in red and white respectively; 46 sources with geometric distances calculated from Gaia data are marked with green crosses. Image credit: Wlodarczyk-Sroka et al, arXiv: 2006.09756.

New Study Expands Breakthrough Listen Initiative’s Search for Intelligent Life

Sep 3, 2020 by News Staff

In a new study to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a research team led by University of Manchester astronomers extended...

CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia. Image credit: Shaun Amy.

Breakthrough Listen Scientists Release New Data from SETI Survey of Milky Way

Feb 18, 2020 by News Staff

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of alien civilizations, has released data from...

An artist’s depiction of a rapidly spinning neutron star and a white dwarf dragging the fabric of spacetime around its orbit. Image credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence.

Exotic Binary System Confirms Relativistic Frame-Dragging

Jan 31, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has found exciting new evidence for Lense-Thirring precession — an effect of relativistic frame-dragging —...

The location of the FRB 150807. The yellow circle shows the typical location of an FRB. There are thousands of stars and galaxies in this direction. Because FRB 150807 was very bright the astronomers were able to locate it to a small region near the edge of that circle, shown as the pink banana-shaped region in the inset. In this region there are only six detected galaxies. The position of the most likely host galaxy, VHS7, is highlighted on the plot. Image credit: Vikram Ravi, California Institute of Technology / Ryan Shannon, ICRAR-Curtin & CSIRO.

Astronomers Report Most Luminous ‘Fast Radio Burst’ Ever Observed

Nov 21, 2016 by News Staff

A research team led by California Institute of Technology astronomer Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon has detected the brightest...

Breakthrough Listen: Parkes Radio Telescope Turns to Proxima b

Nov 8, 2016 by News Staff

Breakthrough Listen, the largest ever research program aimed at finding evidence of advanced civilizations beyond Earth, today announced its first observations...