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On March 4, 2024, a radio array in South Africa caught a flash that lasted only a few milliseconds and then vanished. MeerKAT, working with the MeerTRAP search system, logged it at 00:50 UTC and gave it the name FRB 20240304B. The pulse arrived ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (with initial data captured by South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope) have localized the most distant fast radio burst ever recorded.

Astronomers used the Webb telescope to see where the farthest fast radio burst we've ever seen had come from.

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New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has expressed skepticism about the country's Moon landings over half a century ago.

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through 'approximately 80% of cosmic history'

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Photo credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Rodriguez Eight separate records from Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic observers place a new star in Cassiopeia between August 4-6, 1181. It stayed visible for 185 days, long enough for ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is giving astronomers a glimpse of the kinds of violent collisions that may have shaped our own solar system, including the giant impact thought to have created the Moon. By studying 21 rare "extreme debris disks" .. ...