{"id":127141,"date":"2026-10-01T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=127141"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:06:06","slug":"chime-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chime-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIME Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>CHIME Telescope Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An international team, including researchers from the Raman Research Institute (RRI) in Bengaluru, has detected the faint radio glow of hydrogen from 9 billion years ago by using the CHIME radio telescope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About CHIME Telescope<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CHIME (<\/span><b>Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a radio telescope located in <\/span><b>British Columbia, Canada<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which was <\/span><b>built in 2017.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Focus:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It was built to map the <\/span><b>distribution of hydrogen gas in the early universe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>capable of mapping the sky<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with unprecedented sensitivity and speed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It delivers a snapshot of what our sky looks like at radio wavelengths every day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Components<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHIME comprises <\/span><b>four massive parabolic radio antennas that <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">collect radio <\/span><b>waves in the 400 to 800 MHz range.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has no moving parts <\/span><b>and instead uses signal processing techniques<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to combine the information from over a thousand antennas to focus and point the telescope digitally.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The telescope receives radio signals each day <\/span><b>from half of the sky as the Earth rotates.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHIME focuses <\/span><b>incoming signals using a correlator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a powerful digital signaling processor that can work through huge amounts of data, at a rate of about 7 terabits per second.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has capability to <\/span><b>detect and study Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), transient flashes of radio waves originating from distant galaxies.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?PRID=2317106&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHIME (Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) is a radio telescope located in British Columbia, Canada which was built in 2017. 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