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Millisecond Pulsars Discovered
A group of astronomers have discovered 8 milli second Pulsars. These pulsars are located within the dense clusters of stars called the “Globular Clusters”. The Pulsars were discovered using the MeerKAT telescope located in South Africa. What are Milli second Pulsars? The Milli second pulsars are the most compact stars known to mankind. They pin ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Globular clusters • MeerKAT telescope • Millisecond pulsar • Pulsars • Radio telescopes
MeerKAT Radio Telescope: Two Giant Radio Galaxies discovered
The MeerKAT Radio Telescope recently discovered two giant radio galaxies. The galaxies were discovered under the MIGHTEE survey. The discovered galaxies are bigger than 93% of any other giants discovered before. They were 62 times the size of Milky Way. Light takes 6.5 million light years to travel from one end to the other. MeerKAT ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: MeerKAT • Milky Way • radio galaxy • Radio telescopes • Square Kilometre Array
First Potential Radio signal from Exo planet
An international team of scientists have collected the first possible radio signal from an exoplanet. The exoplanet is 51 light years away from the earth. What is unique about the Exoplanet? This is possibly the first radio signal received from a planet beyond solar system. The signals were received by a Low Frequency Array radio ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Discoveries of exoplanets • Doppler spectroscopy technique • Exoplanet • Radio telescopes • Tau Bootes • Transit Photometry Detection method
World Largest Telescope to have IT controls built in India
The square kilometre array also called the SKA, an international initiative building the world’s largest radio telescope is to have control systems designed and built by Tata Consultancy Services, an IT company based in India. Several other multiple leading Indian scientific Institutions are also contributing to the project under the leadership of TCS. Highlights The National ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: cosmic magnetism • Geomagnetism • Milky Way galaxy • radio signals • Radio telescopes • radio waves • SKA telescope • Tata Consultancy Services • TIFR
LOFAR telescopes helped to discover 300000 new galaxies
An international team of more than 200 astronomers from 18 countries has published the first phase of a major new radio sky survey at unprecedented sensitivity using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The survey discovered 3,00,000 hidden galaxies using radio astronomy in a tiny corner of the northern ..
Topics: ASTRON • Astronomical imaging • Astronomy • LOFAR • Natural sciences • Observational astronomy • Physical sciences • Radio astronomy • Radio telescopes • Telescope • Westerveld