I am writing this column surrounded by boxes. My astronomy books are packed, as are many of our belongings. In a few days I will lose Internet…
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For many years, astronomers have mused about the possibility of putting radio telescopes on the Moon. Considering the extreme temperature vari…
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…
Canadian radio astronomy started directly after the Second World War. Arthur Covington, a scientist with the National Research Council, had be…
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…
It was not that long ago that it was widely thought that the only way we would find out if other stars had planets was to go there and look.
In the year 1054, observers around the world noticed a new star in the sky.
LONGUEUIL, Que. - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, outfitted with two Canadian-built systems that help capture images, is already astounding…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's first image of the chaotic supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy doesn't portray a vorac…