An international team led by Chinese astronomers has discovered a new type of fast radio burst, brief but bright flashes in the expanding universe that mysteriously keep exploding about once every 10 to 15 minutes. Persistent fast radio burst named FRB 20190520B was discovered on May 20, 2019 by Niu Chenhui, a post-doctoral fellow at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy Continue Reading
GOES-18 Sends Back First Stunning Imagery of Earth.
May 11, 2022, NOAA shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from its GOES-18 satellite. The satellite’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument recently captured stunning views of Earth. GOES-18, NOAA’s newest geostationary satellite, launched on March 1. The ABI views Earth with sixteen different channels, each measuring energy at different wavelengths along the Continue Reading