Capturing the Unseen: SETI Institute and Oxford University Astronomers Discover Early Radio Emission from a Spectacular Cosmic Explosion

Capturing the Unseen: SETI Institute and Oxford University Astronomers Discover Early Radio Emission from a Spectacular Cosmic Explosion ATA takes part in a global effort to observe and understand a massive gamma radio burst. PRESS RELEASE DATE March 28,... More

Capturing the Unseen: SETI Institute and Oxford University Astronomers Discover Early Radio Emission from a Spectacular Cosmic Explosion ATA takes part in a global effort to observe and understand a massive gamma radio burst. PRESS RELEASE DATE March 28, 2023 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) based in Hat Creek Radio Astronomy Observatory, California, USA. The ATA is operated by the SETI institute, designed as an instrument dedicated to technosignature searches, it has the potential to be a powerful facility for the study of transients. Image Credit: Joe Marfia. March 28, 2023, Mountain View, CA – A team of astronomers from the SETI Institute, Oxford University, and other institutions worked together to study the earliest stages of the Universe’s most powerful explosions. The team was able to capture detailed information about a gamma radio burst (GRB) called the “Brightest of All Time” (BOAT), also kn Less