Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s most elusive structures, the cosmic web. The instrument, called MOTHRA, aims to detect faint gas that stretches between ...

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For radio astronomy, things get even better during the lunar night, when the sun drops beneath the horizon and is blocked by the moon’s mass. For up to 14 Earth-days at a time, a spot on the moon’s ...

Kevin Bandura, an engineer in the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, designs radio telescope technology to help astronomers understand the ...