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A meerkat doing science! 🤓🤩😲
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2k3pgTwGgI

#science #astronomy #radioastronomy #meerkat #ska #SquareKilometerArray #southafrica

A pulsar rotating 122 times per second could be present at the heart of the Milky Way

ⓘ NidhiYashwan…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #benchmarks #BreakthroughListen #galacticcenter #graphicscard #GreenBankTelescope #laptop #magnetar #MilkyWay #millisecondpulsar #netbook #neutronstar #notebook #processor #pulsar #radioastronomy #reports #review #Reviews #SagittariusA #Science #solarsystem #SquareKilometerArray #telescope #test #tests #UK #UnitedKingdom #VeryLargeArray
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/441084/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/351827/ A pulsar rotating 122 times per second could be present at the heart of the Milky Way #benchmarks #BreakthroughListen #Éire #GalacticCenter #GraphicsCard #GreenBankTelescope #IE #Ireland #laptop #Magnetar #MilkyWay #MillisecondPulsar #netbook #NeutronStar #notebook #processor #pulsar #RadioAstronomy #reports #Review #Reviews #SagittariusA #Science #SolarSystem #Space #SquareKilometerArray #Telescope #test #tests #VeryLargeArray

https://www.europesays.com/uk/783290/ A pulsar rotating 122 times per second could be present at the heart of the Milky Way #Benchmarks #BreakthroughListen #GalacticCenter #GraphicsCard #GreenBankTelescope #laptop #magnetar #MilkyWay #MillisecondPulsar #netbook #NeutronStar #notebook #Physics #processor #pulsar #RadioAstronomy #reports #Review #Reviews #SagittariusA #Science #SolarSystem #SquareKilometerArray #Telescope #test #tests #UK #UnitedKingdom #VeryLargeArray

#China starts building world's largest fully steerable #radiotelescope
120-meter colossus expected to be online in 2028 – around the same time the #SquareKilometerArray https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/28/jilin_120_meter_radio_telescope/

‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for #alien life
Among these new instruments are the #SquareKilometerArray, made up of hundreds of radio telescopes now being built in #SouthAfrica and #Australia, and the #VeraRubinObservatory that is being constructed in #Chile.
"we will be able to detect unintentional transmissions as opposed to deliberate ones and will be able to spot alien airport radar, or powerful TV transmitters"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/13/amazing-new-technology-set-to-transform-the-search-for-alien-life #SETI

Here is MeerKAT itself. Unfortunately the telescope was working, so I was not allowed to turn my camera on any nearer than this, for fear of electrical noise from the autofocus motors blowing the sensitive receivers!

#SquareKilometerArray #astronomy #SouthAfrica

Sharing this for no particular reason: The place where the South African part of the Square Kilometer Array is going to be built is dramatic and beautiful. I took this photo about 20km from MeerKAT, which will be a part of the core cluster, roughly in the middle of a triangle formed by the towns of Williston, Carnarvon and Vanwyksvlei.

#SquareKilometerArray #astronomy #SouthAfrica

Starlinks are Easily Detected by Radio Telescopes

Visible and infrared astronomers are concerned about light pollution from satellite megaconstellations, and radio astronomers should be concerned too. A team of astronomers used radio telescopes in Australia to image the sky as Starlink satellites overhead. The tests were done at the future Square Kilometer Array facility in Western Australia, using prototype stations that will become part of the array. According to the team, the satellites were easily detectable, and they could see them performing periodic bursts and steady transmissions. When the full SKA comes online, satellites will be another source of radio interference to contend with.

#starlink #squarekilometerarray

http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15672

So, exciting news! I just ended a call with one of my new friends at the Square Kilometer Array, and it looks like Season 4 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast is a go!

We keep things pretty loose at Urban Astronomer HQ, so details could easily change as the mood strikes, but we're hard at work writing scripts and setting up interviews with key SKA personnel for another 12 episodes. As usual, we're planning to release an episode every two weeks, and as usual we're probably going to miss a few deadlines, but we'll do our best to keep the good stuff coming on time!

So what can you expect? Interviews! With technical staff at MeerKAT! And Scientists! Talking about their science! Computer people talking about supercomputers! Engineers talking about how to even build the thing! Indigenous people who live next door and have to look at it! Managers and politicians who did whatever managers and politicians do to get projects like this built! Telescopes! Science!

And also, as per tradition, our own special ever-popular unique patented Science Explainy Bits, where we do our best to explain how it all works, using just our words and no diagrams because this is a podcast!

And where will you find all this lovely stuff? Why, at https://www.urban-astronomer.com of course! Now with extra subscribe buttons, to hook you up in the podcast platform of your choice, and a full back catalogue dating all the way back to our first episode in 2017.

Subscribe now, and never miss an episode of The Urban Astronomer Podcast - SKA season!

#UrbanAstronomer #Astronomy #Podcast #SquareKilometerArray #Science #SciComm #news

My #SKA papers bot, which posts #arXiv papers about the #SquareKilometerArray #SquareKilometreArray, is now on #Mastodon https://botsin.space/@ska_papers @ska_papers #astrodon

My #SKA papers bot, which posts #arXiv papers about the #SquareKilometerArray #SquareKilometreArray, is now on #Mastodon https://botsin.space/@ska_papers @ska_papers #astrodon

My #SKA papers bot, which posts #arXiv papers about the #SquareKilometerArray #SquareKilometreArray, is now on #Mastodon https://botsin.space/@ska_papers @ska_papers #astrodon

My #SKA papers bot, which posts #arXiv papers about the #SquareKilometerArray #SquareKilometreArray, is now on #Mastodon https://botsin.space/@ska_papers @ska_papers #astrodon

My #SKA papers bot, which posts #arXiv papers about the #SquareKilometerArray #SquareKilometreArray, is now on #Mastodon https://botsin.space/@ska_papers @ska_papers #astrodon

Weltgrößtes Forschungsinstrument: Square Kilometre Array Observatory wird gebaut

An den Standorten in Australien und Südafrika wurde der Baubeginn des riesigen Teleskopverbunds gefeiert. Die Erwartungen sind immens.

https://www.heise.de/news/Weltgroesstes-Forschungsinstrument-Square-Kilometre-Array-Observatory-wird-gebaut-7367174.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.-.-

#Astronomie #Radioastronomie #Radioteleskop #SKAO #SquareKilometerArray #SquareKilometreArrayObservatory #News

#Astrodon question. I have a couple of silly bots on Twit- I mean, the Bird Site. @[email protected] tweets #arXiv papers mentioning the #SKA #SquareKilometerArray, and @[email protected] posts arXiv papers with, um, (inadvertent?) rude words. I’m wondering if I should set them up here, with CWs?