In the Jodie Foster movie “Contact”, the action begins when the Very Large Array—a major radio telescope in the United States—detects an alien…
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Over the last few years, the term “Goldilocks Zone” has become widely used to describe the range of distances from a star where planets would …
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Building and electrical permits currently charged for the installation of solar power projects in West ѻý should be waived, a residents’ …
Our planet is surrounded by a magnetic field that acts as a shield. It keeps the solar wind away from the top of our atmosphere, preventing it…
Canadian radio astronomy started directly after the Second World War. Arthur Covington, a scientist with the National Research Council, had be…
The recent lunar eclipse was spectacular. From here on Earth, small telescopes showed the Earthѻý shadow moving slowly across the Moonѻý surfa…
In 2007 astronomers discovered a strange event in data obtained using the 63m radio telescope at Parkes, Australia. It was a pulse of cosmic r…