#radioastronomy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #radioastronomy, aggregated by home.social.
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📡 MeerKAT has extracted the neutral hydrogen 21 cm signal from 4–5 billion light years away using radio data alone, with no optical galaxy survey to lean on. A Manchester / Univ. of the Western Cape team analysed ~96 hours of observations taken back in 2018. Hydrogen intensity mapping is becoming a practical cosmology tool — and a key method for SKAO. (1 Sep 2026)
#RadioAstronomy #Astronomy #Space
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/astronomers-use-meerkat-to-directly-detect-faint-hydrogen-signal-from-the-distant-universe -
📡 For the first time the ITU-R EPFD regulatory framework has been applied directly to radio telescope measurements. All-sky interferometric data show unintended emission from satellite mega-constellations exceeding the radio astronomy interference threshold in 50–70% of samples — against a 2% tolerance. Margins are negative: −18.6 to −16.3 dB. Preprint, 2 Sep 2026.
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📡 Images from the Radio Galaxy Zoo citizen science project were used to pretrain very small vision models (~6M parameters) with LeJEPA. A University of Geneva team shows that self-supervised learning directly on radio astronomy data matches far larger models at radio galaxy morphology classification — cheaper and more scalable. Preprint, 31 Aug 2026.
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☀️ Solar radio astronomy, seen from Czechia: Dr Miroslav Bárta of the Solar Department at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences explains what ALMA in the Chilean Andes reveals about our nearest star, what Czech researchers focus on, and which upgrades will sharpen observations for other fields too. (In Czech.)
📅 4 Sep 2026
🔗 https://www.astro.cz/clanky/multimedia/hlubinami-vesmiru-s-dr-miroslavem-bartou-alma-a-nejblizsi-hvezda.html -
📡 The MIDAS survey is the deepest MWA map so far — the GAMA9 and GAMA23 fields at 215.7 MHz. Over 2,100 deg² of sky, nearly 100 hours of observing and a catalogue of 133,826 radio components above 5σ. Mosaics, RMS maps, catalogues and the full imaging pipeline are all released publicly.
📅 1 Sep 2026
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📻 Radio meteors, August 2026: Felix Verbelen's monthly report of reflections recorded at Kampenhout (BE) on the VVS beacon frequency of 49.99 MHz. The Perseids peaked on 13 Aug; 52 reflections lasting over a minute were logged across the month. Raw hourly counts are published as CSV, ready for your own analysis.
📅 4 Sep 2026
🔗 https://www.emeteornews.net/2026/09/04/radio-meteors-august-2026/ -
An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy 📡
Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands.Radio frequency interference from Starlink not only spans the narrowband intended emissions, but also broadband unintended emissions too, coming from propulsion and avionics.
This RFI is unregulated and affects key science goals.
Starlink appears in ~30% of all sky images.
This new study, from Dylan Grigg at Curtin University, is not the first to study the impacts of Starlink on #RadioAstronomy, but is the largest of its kind, and quantifies how this type of radio frequency interference - that comes from above - will impact the mega-science SKA project.
My latest piece for #SpaceAustralia
https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emerging-risk-radio-astronomy
📸 Astro_Work 🔭 (supplied) / Griggs et al. 2025
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Homebrew Radio Telescope Bags Pulsar - When one mulls the possibility of detecting pulsars, to the degree that one does, ... - https://hackaday.com/2022/05/25/homebrew-radio-telescope-bags-pulsar/ #camelopardalis #radioastronomy #neutronstar #radiohacks #psrb032954 #nooelec #rtl-sdr #pulsar #space #lna #sdr