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N-gated Hacker News

🚀🔭 Big news, folks! Apparently, the universe has been busy gossiping about "giant radio galaxies" while our grand technological overlords at are too busy blocking requests to explain what that even means. 💫📡 Guess the galaxies will have to wait in line behind our 400 Bad Requests. 🙄
phys.org/news/2025-04-fifteen-

Phys.org · Fifteen new giant radio galaxies discovered with ASKAPBy Tomasz Nowakowski
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Emus for Entropy

Your on a Good Thing [TM] when the first trial you run yields "too much" [1] good data :)

SKA -side effects 101

**Cosmic Fast Bursts**

January 28, 2025

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on a beach.

“That’s the equivalent of sifting through a whole beach of sand to look for a single five-cent coin every minute,”

“We’re also detecting long-period transients, which remain mysterious objects within our galaxy. Both fast radio bursts and these transients were first discovered in Australia, so it is great that we’re continuing the path of discovery with this impressive technology,” Dr Wang said.

icrar.org/craco/

[1] more than expected
#Astronomy #CosmicFastBurst #CSIRO #ICRAR #ASKAP

An Australian Aboriginal style Artistic Impression of the source of a cosmic fast burst. Rich Red Ochre background with a solar type source "shooting" directionally outward. Oxide Yellow translucent whites and soft blues are the primary palate.
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Kuuke's Sterrenbeelden

Astronomen vinden de langzaamst draaiende radiostraling uitzendende neutronenster

Neutronensterren draaien typisch op zeer hoge snelheden rond. Ze doen dat in enkele seconden of slechts een fractie van een seconde. Astronomen hebben er nu eentje gevonden die anders is, ASKAP J1935+2148 zendt radiosignalen uit met een interval

kuuke.nl/astronomen-vinden-de-

#askap#meerkat#neutronenster
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CosmicRami

Are astronomers on the brink of discovering a new celestial object?

Recently, astronomers have been discovering an emerging population of astrophysical objects that resemble neutron stars, but with longer rotation periods. This unique population is challenging our understanding of how these objects form and how they emit radiation.

I got to speak with this exciting new paper’s lead author, Dr Manisha Caleb from The University of Sydney, about this remarkable discovery, which was first found by CSIRO's #ASKAP telescope located in WA.

What if we are on the precipice of something big here? These are def. very exciting times for geeks like me!

spaceaustralia.com/feature/pop

#SpaceAustralia #Astrophysics #NeutronStars #Astrodon #RadioAstronomy

📸 Carl Knowx/OzGrav

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CosmicRami

Looking at eclipses with radio telescope also gives us insightful info into the active regions of the Sun (like sunspots) as well as helping study background sources twinkling in the Solar wind.

Some stills from Emil Lenc’s video of a partial solar eclipse (2023) seen by CSIRO’s ASKAP 📡📡📡📡📡

Radio image of the Sun, annotated with a yellow circle. The Sun has several bright features on it. The Moon, annotated with a grey circle is just entering the image in bottom right.
Radio image of the Sun, annotated with a yellow circle. The Sun has several bright features on it. The Moon, annotated with a grey circle is now touching bottom right part of the solar disc.
Radio image of the Sun, annotated with a yellow circle. The Sun has several bright features on it. The Moon, annotated with a grey circle is now covering most of the solar disc.
Radio image of the Sun, annotated with a yellow circle. The Sun has several bright features on it. The Moon, annotated with a grey circle is now touching top left part of the solar disc.
#ASKAP#CSIRO#RadioAstronomy
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𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎𝚕𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚌𝚒 🇪🇺

É un impulso radio di durata brevissima, meno di un millisecondo. Ma per arrivare fino a noi ha impiegato otto miliardi di anni. Si tratta di cosiddetto lampo radio veloce, è stato intercettato il 10 giugno 2022 dal radiotelescopio #Askap, in #Australia, e ha superato del 50 per cento il precedente record di distanza per segnali di questo tipo. La scoperta è riportata oggi su Science.

#vlt #eso #inaf #frb #scienza #astrofisica

media.inaf.it/2023/10/19/frb-p

MEDIA INAF · Frb da record: è il più distante mai osservato - MEDIA INAFÈ un impulso radio di durata brevissima, meno di un millisecondo. Ma per arrivare fino a noi ha impiegato otto miliardi di anni. Si tratta di cosiddetto lampo radio veloce, è stato intercettato il 10 giugno 2022 dal radiotelescopio Askap, in Australia, e ha superato del 50 per cento il precedente record di distanza per segnali di questo tipo. La scoperta è riportata oggi su Science
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RTN

"Astronom*innen weisen bisher fernsten schnellen Radioblitz nach"

"Ein intl. Team hat einen fernen Ausbruch kosmischer Radiowellen entdeckt, der weniger als eine Millisekunde dauerte. Dieser „schnelle Radioblitz“ (FRB) .. bisher fernste, der je registriert wurde. Eine Pressemitteilung des ESO Science Outreach Network (ESON)."

raumfahrer.net/astronominnen-w

19.10.2023

www.raumfahrer.netAstronom*innen weisen bisher fernsten schnellen Radioblitz nach – Raumfahrer.net
#ASKAP#Astronomie#CSIRO
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Matt Willemsen

Astronomers have discovered a rare ‘polar ring galaxy’ wrapped in a huge ribbon of hydrogen
Polar ring galaxies are some of the most spectacular looking galaxies that we can see. Beyond just being beautiful, they provide important clues about the formation and growth of galaxies over time.
theconversation.com/astronomer #PolarRing #galaxy #hydrogen #ASKAP

The ConversationAstronomers have discovered a rare 'polar ring galaxy' wrapped in a huge ribbon of hydrogenNew ASKAP images reveal a giant hydrogen ring around the spiral galaxy NGC 4632.
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CosmicRami

SUPER NEAT NEW SCIENCE!

An enormous ribbon of hydrogen encircling a spiral galaxy called NGC 4632, found with the help of CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope (also NGC 6156)

📡📡📡

It's a 'polar ring galaxy' - where the gas is inclined almost perpendicular to the galaxy's rotation. Likely an old companion galaxy.

Read the paper here:academic.oup.com/mnras/article

graphic of a spiral galaxy, a little edge on. Perpendicular to this is a large, ovale shaped ring of gas, superimposed on the image.
#Astrodon#RadioAstronomy#Galaxies
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