Radio astronomy and amateur radio have a close historical connection, and one theme of the hamfest VLA tour is…
How do we know what’s going on in protoplanetary disks? Visible light telescopes don’t reveal much, because the thick…
The end of the summer can be a stressful time for many scientists. Professors, researchers, and graduate students, returning…
Tiny acorns make giant oak trees. But did you know that entire planets are born from pieces even smaller than…
Superheroes, archenemes, actors, and animated characters galore… what do they have in common with dark matter, star formation, and…
Chajnantor is a name given to a plateau in the high Atacama Desert. In the language of the region’s…
The Very Large Array Sky Survey is observing 33,885 square degrees of the sky over seven years, mapping 82…
#RADIOIMAGEOFTHEWEEK
Animation of a Black Hole
Artist's conception of region near the supermassive black hole inside the radio galaxy known as 3C 120, where twisted magnetic fields propel and shape jets of particles.
We see the world around us, because our eyes detect visible light, a type of electromagnetic radiation. Objects on Earth and in space also emit other types of EM radiation that cannot be seen by the human eye, such as radio waves.
