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Astronomers Detect Atomic Hydrogen Emission In Galaxies At Record Breaking Distances
2014-12-05 04:02:25| rfglobalnet Home Page
Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years. Their results appear in a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Mysterious fast radio bursts from outer space: Astronomers baffled, admit they could be alien in origin
2014-07-29 14:36:30| Extremetech
Since 2001, the Parkes radio telescope in Australia has been picking up mysterious, unidentified bursts of energy that astronomers have since dubbed 'fast radio bursts.' At first, because no other telescope in the world had ever seen these bursts, it was assumed that these FRBs were probably just glitches in the telescope's electronics -- but now, 13 years later, a telescope on the other side of the planet in Puerto Rico has detected an FRB. No one knows what's causing these FRBs, but it's almost certainly something very exotic, like an intelligent alien civilization.
Astronomers discover Earth-sized diamond-encrusted white dwarf
2014-06-25 23:09:51| Extremetech
Astronomers have discovered the faintest white dwarf star ever orbiting a pulsar 900 light years away. They know because they can't see it.
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Alien life exists and could be found within 20 years, with enough funding, astronomers tell Congress
2014-05-22 19:37:42| Extremetech
Two of the world's preeminent extraterrestrial astronomers (as in, they research extraterrestrials, not that they're extraterrestrials themselves) have told US Congress that there is almost certainly alien life out there in the universe -- and with adequate funding, we should find that alien life within 20 years.
Astronomers discover new dwarf planet and possible super-Earth in our Solar System
2014-03-27 15:44:00| Extremetech
For the longest time, the Solar System was known to have nine planets. Eventually, Pluto got downgraded to a dwarf planet due to the discovery of various other celestial bodies found in the Solar System that were of similar size. Now, astronomers discovered a dwarf planet -- dubbed 2012 VP113 and just 279.6 miles wide -- orbiting the Sun. However, astronomers noticed that something seems out-of-place regarding its orbit, and speculate that the incongruence could originate from a massive body influencing VP113's orbit -- a super-Earth.
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