: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy
Examples of radio telescope in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebAstronomers could, in just the next few years, start to solve the problem in a remarkable way: Putting radio telescopes on the far side of the moon, where the moon’s mass would block out all that electronic noise.—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2024 One of the main characters is involved in research at a radio telescope.—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024 Finally, a simple DIY radio telescope can be used to observe the decreasing energy from the sun as the eclipse progresses.—Daniel Johnson, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024 According to the team, this is the deepest, most sensitive radio image ever compiled by any Australian radio telescope.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024 The world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, operates at Green Bank and requires radio silence for its work.—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024 In the next decade, the EHT Collaboration—which uses eight telescopes around the world to function as one, huge radio telescope—hopes to add more telescopes to its regime and observe at new frequencies.—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024 Indeed, Wu and his colleagues suggest that their seismic network could piggyback on the infrastructure needed to support other science experiments on the Moon—for example, a radio telescope on the moon’s far side.—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024 Such findings are only possible due to the extreme sensitivity this and the other three radio telescopes at the observatory possess.—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
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