RADIO ASTRONOMY

April 2021 marks 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space. In this month's episode we look back on Yuri's historic flight, how it all nearly went wrong, and the mission's lasting legacy.

The SKA Observatory, a new intergovernmental organisation dedicated to radio astronomy, was launched on 4 February 2021 following the first meeting of the Observatory’s Council. Known as SKAO, it is the world’s second intergovernmental organisation to be dedicated to astronomy. Hear from SKAO Council Chair Dr Catherine Cesarsky and SKAO Director-General Prof. Philip Diamond on the significance of the day's events.

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first measurement of wind speed on a brown dwarf — an object intermediate in mass between a planet and a star. Writing and narration provided by Phil Plait @SYFY Discover more about the wind speed of brown dwarfs from the original press release: https://public.nrao.edu/news/brown-dwarf-wind-speed/

Did we really detect a signal from Proxima Centauri? Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/launchpad. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/space​.. A new (alien?) signal designated Breakthrough Listen Candidate One (BLC-1) appears to have originated from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. It's already being compared to the famous WOW! signal of 1977, but it's very likely not really coming from Proxima, or even from beyond our solar system. But, it could nevertheless be a significant milestone in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. 00:00 Start 02:26 Ad 03:32 Proxima Centauri system 05:17 Parkes observations 06:16 How sources are determined 07:32 Satellites and orbits 10:22 Signal characteristics and airports? 12:40 Confirmation with future telescopes 14:34 An interstellar communications network? 15:40 Next steps and expected results 16:03 Telescopes on the Moon 16:25 Thanks and Patreon and Subscribe! 🔔 Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 🖖 Share this video with a fellow space traveler: https://youtu.be/HZrlY7d8fMI 🔴 Watch my most recent upload: https://goo.gl/QbRcE2 🚀 Help me improve the channel by joining the community on Patreon https://patreon.com/launchpadastro 🚀 Check out Launch Pad merchandise! https://teespring.com/stores/launchpadastro Disclaimer: Some of these links go to one of my websites and some are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. ✅ Let's connect: For business inquiries - chris AT christianready DOT com Twitter - @launchpadastro Instagram - @launchpadastro Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LaunchPadAstronomy/ Discord - https://discord.gg/yChAuUe 📭 c/o Christian Ready P.O. Box 66 Westminster, MD 21158 United States Earth

BLC1 is a candidate SETI radio signal found by the Breakthrough Listen project, the signal is possibly coming from the star Proxima Centauri and has a frequency of 982.002 MHz. Jason Wright is a professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State. https://twitter.com/Astro_Wright https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/alien-hunters-detect-mysterious-radio-signal-from-nearby-star/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-hunters-discover-mysterious-signal-from-proxima-centauri/ Follow us at other places! Website: https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmgeventhorizon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jmgeventhorizon/ Music featured on Event Horizon https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/ https://migueljohnson.bandcamp.com/ https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ https://aeriumambient.bandcamp.com/ FOOTAGE: NASA ESA/Hubble ESO - M.Kornmesser ESO - L.Calcada ESO - Jose Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org) NAOJ University of Warwick Goddard Visualization Studio Langley Research Center Pixabay

News has leaked of the discovery of a radio transmission from our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. Did we just detect alien communications?! Join us for this special video with Professor Kipping explaining what we know and why some skepticism is warranted. You can now support our research program and the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University: https://www.coolworldslab.com/support Get Stash here! https://teespring.com/stores/cool-worlds-store Thank-you to K. Clark, T. Widdowson, D. Smith, S. Hackley, M. Sloan, L. Sanborn, K. Kantor, P. Herman, A. Aganbegyan, C. Bottaccini, D. Brunk, D. Daughaday, S. Fincher, J. Kindred, A. Jones, J. Allen, S. Baldwin, J. Black, S. Brownlee, S. Chaturvedi, D. Denholm, T. Dorais, G. Downton, E. Urrestarazu, G. Fulton, S. Griffiths, P. Halloran, J. Jurcevic, N. Kildal, J. Kobernick, W. Kobernick, V. Kremer, M. Lijoi, S. Loftin, B. Loizides, A. Maslyanchuk, B. Matson, O. Mcintyre, L. Mitchell, A. Pelletier, J. Rivillas, B. Robinson, Z. Star, L. Steely, E. Stefan-Matyus, M. Steven, E. West, B. York, T. Zajonc, P. Gowd, S. Kelsey, P. Kommareddy, C. Wolfred, D. Vennel, E. Dessoi, F. Naeem, F. Rebolledo, H. Laging, J. Falls, J. Adams, M. Gremillion, P. Rutherford, T. Kline, T. Leger, L. Skov, D. Roberts, E. Wilson, I. Baskerville, J. Bassnett, J. Shackleford, M. Undin, M. Kroebel, I. Johnstone, G. Suter, I. Hopcraft, J. Valdes, P. Akrill-Misso, W. Robertson, E. Orman, G. Ingham, D. Hecke, J. Pilloff, T. Bernhard, D. Dianovszki, E. Cook, S. Mass, T. Richards, T. Lancaster, C. Stouffer, G. Benson, A. de Vaal, C. Diamantis, J. Wenzel, M. Elliott, M. Wallstab, S. Bialek, B. Thomson, B. Daniluk, B. Bowen, D. Jacobson & M. Forbes. ::Clips used:: ► Parkes timelapse by Angelo Papakostas: https://vimeo.com/66404362 ► LEO orbits by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio: https://youtu.be/gF9UlTYR5d0 ► Moon transit by NASA/NOAA/EPIC: https://youtu.be/DMdhQsHbWTs ► Satellite orbit animation by ESA: http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2006/09/Animation_of_crowding_of_the_GEO ► Molniya orbit animation by Sergey Lemeshencko: https://youtu.be/5wt_2mM4Z1c ::Music:: Music used is licensed via Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and/or with permission from the artist. ► "Trace Correction" by Indive licensed under a CC Attribution license: https://indive.bandcamp.com #BLC1 #Wow2020 #BreakthroughListen

I wrote a foreword for this awesome Sci-Fi book here: https://amzn.to/3aGrg0I Get a Wonderful Person shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: paypal.me/whatdamath Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a recent detection of an unusual radio signal referred to as BLC-1 that seems to point at a technosignature coming from Proxima Centauri...But it's also probably not. Article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/alien-hunters-detect-mysterious-radio-signal-from-nearby-star/ Main researcher: https://sites.psu.edu/szs714/ Video used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E8uwQAros4 Image used: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Waterfall_AM.jpg More about the detection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLC-1 Image credit: CSIRO Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: paypal.me/whatdamath Space Engine is available for free here: http://spaceengine.org Enjoy and please subscribe. Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatdamath Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatdamath The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/34DUUlv CPU: https://amzn.to/2LZFQCJ Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Specifically, great thanks to the following members: Morrison Waud Vlad Manshin Mark Teranishi TheHuntress Ralph Spataro Albert B. Cannon Lilith Dawn Greg Lambros adam lee Gabriel Seiffert Henry Spadoni J Carter Jer Silver surfer Konrad Kummli Nick Dolgy UnexpectedBooks.com Mario Rahmani George Williams Shinne Jakub Glos Johann Goergen Jake Salo LS Greger Lyndon Riley Lauren Smith Michael Tiganila Russell Sears Vinod sethi Dave Blair Robert Wyssbrod Randal Masutani Michael Mitsuda Assaf Dar Sagol Liam Moss Timothy Welter MD Barnard Rabenold Gordon Cooper Tracy Burgess Douglas Burns Jayjay Volz Anataine Deva Kai Raphahn Sander Stols Bodo Graßmann Daniel Charles Smith Daniel G. Eugene Sandulenko gary steelman Max McNally Michael Koebel Sergio Ruelas Steven Aiello Victor Julian Castillo xyndicate Honey Suzanne Lyons Olegas Budnik Dale Andrew Darling Niji Peter Hamrak Matthew Lazear Alexander Afanasyev Anton Newman Anton Reed #seti #BLC1 #BreakthroughListen #ProximaCentauri

An ultra-long-wavelength radio telescope on the far-side of the Moon has tremendous advantages compared to Earth-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes, particularly a Lunar Crater telescope can observe the universe at wavelengths greater than 10m (i.e., frequencies below 30MHz), which are reflected by the Earth’s ionosphere and are hitherto largely unexplored by humans. John Michael Godier speaks with Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay about his 2020 NIAC finalist project for putting a radio telescope inside a crater on the far side of the moon. Link: https://youtu.be/04qHgiGzuxs https://www.nasa.gov/content/niac-symposium Want to support the channel? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow Follow us at other places! Website: https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/ @JMGEventHorizon Music featured on Event Horizon https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/ https://migueljohnson.bandcamp.com/ https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ https://aeriumambient.bandcamp.com/ FOOTAGE: NASA ESA/Hubble ESO - M.Kornmesser ESO - L.Calcada ESO - Jose Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org) NAOJ University of Warwick Goddard Visualization Studio Langley Research Center Pixabay DML

On April 28th this year, Astronomers recorded a powerful radio signal coming directly from our Milky Way galaxy. It is coming from a distant Magnetar, SGR 1935 which was spotted by different telescopes by NASA. NASA recorded 200+ bursts in just 20 minutes. Magnetars are a different type of Neutron Stars. They are well known for their enormous magnetic field which can be 1,000 times stronger than Neutron Star. Since 2007 we've found many radio bursts but their actual source is still not so clear. What If A Neutron Star Hits The Earth? Watch Here https://youtu.be/s4m9ZQ26H_g Subscribe👉 https://youtube.com/MrScientific Instagram: https://instagram.com/MrScientific Facebook: https://facebook.com/ScientificMr Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScientificMr

Astronomer Rick Perley talks with engineer Brent Carlson from the National Research Council of Canada and NRAO scientist Michael Rupen about the circuit boards for the new WIDAR Correlator at the Very Large Array. (WIDAR is an acronym of Wideband Interferometric Digital ARchitecture.) Discover more about The Very Large Array (VLA) on our website: https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/vla/ Take a virtual tour of the observatory and its surroundings: https://public.nrao.edu/explore/vla-explorer/

Get an insight behind the static and hum that get ASV's Radio Astronomy Section excited.

Working together, the separate ALMA telescopes become one giant telescope up to 11 miles (16 km) across. That's a huge, light-gathering eyeball! At that size, ALMA can pinpoint small, hidden details deep inside galaxies or within giant star forming regions, making it one of the most powerful telescopes ever made. In the heart of the array sits the 16 East Asian MELCO telescopes working together like one telescope of 492 feet (150 m) across. Called the Morita Compact Array, these specialized 7-meter telescopes can map the Universe's giant, wispy structures, making certain that ALMA never misses the forest for the trees. Discover more about The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) on our website: https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/alma/ Take a virtual tour of the observatory and its surroundings: https://public.nrao.edu/explore/alma-explorer/

Former North American ALMA Project Director Dr. Adrian Russell talks about the shaping of ALMA's telescope dishes. Every ALMA telescope dish was precision-shaped on site to ensure that its reflection surface is a near-perfect parabola. We use holography towers to read the bumps on a telescope dish, and then engineers make adjustments by hand to reshape the surface. By pointing the antennas at one of the two 50-meter high holography towers at the OSF, a special holography receiver on the antennas can help create a map of the surface of the antenna to identify imperfections. Throughout the life of the observatory, an antenna will be brought down from the high site and re-calibrated in this way about every five years. Discover more about The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) on our website: https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/alma/ Take a virtual tour of the observatory and its surroundings: https://public.nrao.edu/explore/alma-explorer/

Behind the Technical Building are the vehicle garages and the maintenance facilities for telescopes and transporters. This area bustles when routine equipment maintenance schedules kick in. The OSF not only serves as the location for operating the Joint ALMA Observatory, it is also the Assembly, Integration and Verification (AIV) station for all the high technology equipment before being moved to the Array Operations Site (AOS). Discover more about The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) on our website: https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/alma/ Take a virtual tour of the observatory and its surroundings: https://public.nrao.edu/explore/alma-explorer/

Solar flare is one of the most explosive phenomena in the solar system that large amount of energy (1032~1033 ergs) releases within 102-103 seconds, which can accelerate electrons up to few hundreds of MeV and ions up to several tens of GeV. One of the most important issues in solar physics is to investigate the energy release and particle acceleration processes. The flare-accelerated particles generated in the corona can propagate upward along the open magnetic fields into the interplanetary space and move along the closed magnetic fields downward to the lower solar atmosphere. In general, the chromospheric hard X-ray sources occur in the impulsive phase of solar flares and are thought to be the footpoints of newly reconnected magnetic fields mapped to the primary energy release site. The radio emissions are the important diagnostic tool to trace and study the dynamics of flare-accelerated particles. In this talk, I will first introduce the solar flare characteristics in multi-wavelength observations. Then I will present the research works on the estimation of reconnection electric field, asymmetry of chromospheric hard X-ray emissions, fine structures seen in a radio dynamic spectrogram, as well as the pre-flare Type III radio bursts and their solar associations. 8/19 (Wednesday) 14:20 - 15:20 R1203

Long ago in a galaxy far far away something started sending out mysterious radio signals know as Fast Radio Bursts that formed a repeating pattern. With SPACETV Writer and Host Cambrie Caldwell. Learn more: FAST RADIO BURSTS https://www.spacetv.net/fast-radio-bursts/ RADIO ASTRONOMY https://www.spacetv.net/radio-astronomy/ SETI INSTITUTE https://www.spacetv.net/seti-institute/ EXTRA TERRESTRIALS https://www.spacetv.net/extraterrestrial-life/ THE FERMI PARADOX https://www.spacetv.net/the-fermi-paradox/ Sources: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.10275.pdf https://www.newscientist.com/article/2232460-weve-finally-spotted-a-pattern-in-mysterious-radio-blasts-from-space/ http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/F/Fast+Radio+Bursts https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/world/repeating-fast-radio-burst-pattern-scn-trnd/index.html https://www.cnet.com/news/mysterious-looping-space-signal-could-be-aliens-says-harvard-scientist/ Credits: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics The Walt Disney Company Northwestern University Academic & Research Technologies Matthew McCrory Swinburne Astronomy Productions Gemini Observatory/NSF’s Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA McGill University NRAO Outreach/T. Jarrett (IPAC/Caltech); B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF) SPACETV.NET 2020

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We’ve now passed the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and all eyes are back on the Moon. NASA is planning to return to the Moon by 2024 with its Artemis mission, the Chinese have put the Moon firmly in their plans for space exploration, and even SpaceX thinks the Moon is the perfect destination to test out the capabilities of its Starship. But what can you do with the Moon? Refuel spacecraft with resources drawn from the lunar regolith? Mine its helium 3 for your fusion reactors? Build a lunar amusement park? In fact, the far side of the Moon might make one of the best platforms we have for radio telescopes. One side of the Moon is completely blocked from Earth’s constantly increasing radio traffic, giving it the perfect view to the most sensitive radio signals in the Universe. Our Book is out! https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/ Audio Podcast version: ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/universe-today-guide-to-space-audio/id794058155?mt=2 RSS: https://www.universetoday.com/audio Weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg Support us at https://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at https://www.universetoday.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain Twitter: @universetoday Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Instagram - https://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] References: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/leag/white-papers-astronomy/FARSIDE_190710_Final.pdf https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/planck https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/science/firstLight.html https://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/pcr/Data/pdf/Hydrogen%2021-cm%20Emission%20line-final.pdf https://www.universetoday.com/144206/theres-now-an-operational-radio-telescope-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/

You can buy Universe Sandbox 2 here: http://amzn.to/2yJqwU6 Or get a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new discovery coming out of Australia of several newly discovered supernova remnants and a new map of the skies in radio frequencies. Check out the map here: http://gleamoscope.icrar.org/gleamoscope/trunk/src/?w=2.2&l=355.5&b=-1&z=3# Papers: https://www.icrar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/New_SNRs_detected_in_GLEAM.pdf https://www.icrar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/gleam-survey-ii.pdf https://www.icrar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Candidate_SNRs_observed_by_GLEAM-1.pdf Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath Space Engine is available for free here: http://spaceengine.org Enjoy and please subscribe. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatdamath Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatdamath Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: https://amzn.to/2LZFQCJ Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Specifically, great thanks to the following members: Morrison Waud Vlad Manshin Mark Teranishi TheHuntress Daniel Rosvall Ralph Spataro Lilith Dawn Albert B. Cannon Greg Lambros adam lee Jer Henry Spadoni Nick Dolgy Konrad Kummli UnexpectedBooks.com J Carter Gabriel Seiffert Shinne George Williams Jakub Glos Johann Goergen Lyndon Riley LS Greger Jake Salo Michael Tiganila Lauren Smith Olegas Budnik Dave Blair Sander Stols Kai Raphahn Sergio Ruelas Arikkat Unnikrishnan Steven Becky Tracy Burgess Gordon Cooper Steve Wotton Jayjay Volz Anataine Deva Honey Suzanne Lyons Daniel Coleman Matthew Lazear xyndicate Steven Aiello

Expanding Horizons with Millimeter/Submillimeter Astronomy. Only a few decades ago, millimeter-wave astronomical images were limited by the sizes of single telescopes. Today’s images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are dramatically more detailed, thanks to its extended horizons. For example, observations of the disks of gas and dust that surround many very young stars are providing unexpected insights into the way planetary systems form. Dr. Sargent will discuss some of the implications of these results and expectations for the future. She will also explore the path from those single telescopes to larger arrays, touching on how her personal journey has been influenced.