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Canadian team wins prestigious award for work unravelling some of the mysteries of our universe
Astronomers win award for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
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CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation
Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters.
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CHIME – Governor General’s Innovation Awards
We have entered what scientists call “the CHIME Epoch” referring to a project called the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping…
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CHIME study involving U of T astronomers finds fast radio bursts repeat ‘on the time scale of weeks’
A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Toronto’s Dunlap Institute for Astronomy…
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Astronomers detect another form of mysterious, repeating radio bursts | CBC News
Fast-radio bursts have puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. Now a new type of these powerful-yet-brief bursts of…
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A Surprise Discovery Points to the Source of Fast Radio Bursts
After a burst lit up their telescope “like a Christmas tree,” astronomers were able to finally track down the source of…
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Telescope Detects Fast Radio Burst Hitting Earth Every 16 Days
A telescope in Canada has found a source of mysterious fast radio bursts that repeat every 16 days, according to a new…
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This is the first fast radio burst known to have a steady beat
Brief blasts of radio energy from other galaxies keep stumping astronomers, but one seems to be on a 16-day cycle, a new…
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Canadian astronomers find 8 more mysterious repeating fast radio bursts from space
They’re called fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and these odd, fleeting signals from space are shrouded in mystery. But thanks to…
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A homespun Canadian telescope could explain mysterious radio signals from the distant universe
CHIME/FRB will be the world’s leading fast radio burst detector, by far.
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What explains the fascinating radio bursts from outer space
Don Lincoln writes that while there are multiple theories to explain the recent fast radio bursts, it’s unlikely aliens are…
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Thanks to Canadian telescope, scientists are closer to solving one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries
Researchers using a powerful new Canadian telescope have detected six fast radio bursts from the same spot in the sky …
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Canadian telescope finds mysterious radio flashes from deep space
Haul from new radio array includes a second repeating fast radio burst
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Bevy of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Spotted by Canadian Telescope
Bounty includes second known example of a repeating burst
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CHIME begins its cosmic search
This radically different telescope is opening the door to new types of radio astronomy.
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New Telescope Could Solve Mystery Of Deep-Space Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)
New supercomputing Canadian radio-telescope to search for millisecond ‘fast radio bursts’ (FRBs).
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Radio telescope unveiled in B.C. will listen in on secrets of the universe
A new radio telescope that could help unravel the secrets of the universe was unveiled today in Penticton, B.C.
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Sifting through the sounds of space with CHIME
A radio telescope in B.C. will begin to probe the heavens to see how our universe expanded and why
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Innovative radio telescope to scan the skies from Penticton
A new radio-telescope capable of reaching back into the history of the universe by 11 billion years is built largely from…
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Le télescope CHIME à l’écoute de l’Univers
Le tout nouveau radiotélescope CHIME, dans la vallée de l’Okanagan en Colombie-Britanique, est inauguré aujourd’hui le 7…
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What Are Fast Radio Bursts? – Universe Today
Here’s a big mystery in astronomy: fast radio bursts. Brief shrieks of radio waves coming from space. What are they? Where…
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Fast Radio Bursts Are Astronomy’s Next Big Thing
Although still mysterious, these quirky extragalactic signals are now poised to transform mainstream research
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Penticton radio telescope project selects Calgary’s CoolIT Systems for liquid cooling – Cantech Letter
Calgary-based CoolIT Systems, Inc. has been selected by the University of Toronto to provide custom liquid cooling for the…
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Canadian Telescope Explores Dark Energy
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Canadian scientists try to shed light on dark energy
Group aims to build three-dimensional map of the universe ranging from 7 to 11 billion light years from Earth
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Scientists stoked about new telescope near Penticton – Penticton Western News
Observatory near White Lake chosen to host cutting-edge radio telescope that will help explain why and how the universe is…
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Work begins on B.C. radio telescope that will act like time machine: scientists
Construction has begun on a new radio telescope in British Columbia’s south Okanagan that will act like a type…
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New B.C. telescope looks ‘back in time’ to map early universe
The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory is breaking ground on the first research telescope to be built in Canada in…
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Huge radio telescope in B.C. to help map quarter of observable universe
It’s not much more than a dirt pit right now, but Canada’s largest radio telescope is expected to help scientists understand…
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Construction begins on Canada’s largest radio telescope
Construction is now under way in Penticton, B.C. on Canada’s largest radio telescope – and the first research telescope to…
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Penticton radio telescope to search for the invisible substance of the universe
Construction will begin near Penticton next month of a radio telescope which aims to identify the invisible matter that…