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An enormous radio telescope may soon be a powerful tool for planetary defense
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agolarge dish on earth sends waves out to the moon in illustration In Overmatched, we take a close look...
W.Va. Week in history - Green Bank
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 24—Green Bank's 140-foot telescope, the world's largest equatorially mounted radio telescope, operates at short wavelengths. The Interferometer, a series of 85-foot telescopes, operated ...
Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence: The science behind 'Contact'
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOver a quarter-century ago, famed astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan and his wife...
Astronomers used dead stars to detect a new form of ripple in space-time
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTwo giant black holes, in the upper left, collide and distort the bright pulsars around them in this...
An Intergalactic Game of Marco Polo Could Point Us to Aliens
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPhoto Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyFor more than 60 years, scientists...
The building blocks for RNA-based life have been found… in the center of the Milky Way
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWe don’t know exactly how life arose on Earth. For one thing it was a long time ago: Roughly 3.8...
Scientists have finally 'heard' the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoScientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes...
Astrophysicists report solid evidence for a background hum of gravitational waves
GeekWire via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoAstrophysicists have found the best evidence yet for a low-frequency “hum” of gravitational waves...
The gravitational wave background of the universe has been heard for the 1st time
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agobright points of light spread out throughout space emit a grid-like pattern Astronomers have heard...
The universe is humming with gravitational waves. Here's why scientists are so excited about the...
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe very fabric of the universe is ringing with gravitational waves from its earliest epoch, and...
