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STRADA: Teaching AI to read the radio sky

Radio astronomy is entering a new era. Telescopes now scan the sky at a scale that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago, producing vast maps filled with galaxies, jets, lobes and diffuse structures that record how the universe evolves. The scientific opportunity is extraordinary but so is the challenge. Modern surveys generate far more

Myth Debunked: Do radio telescopes ‘hear sound’ from space?

They do not. Space is almost entirely a vacuum, so sound cannot travel through it in the ordinary way. Radio telescopes detect electromagnetic waves, not audio. These waves are part of the same broad family as visible light, infrared and X-rays, but at much longer wavelengths. Astronomers convert those signals into images, measurements and sometimes