radio telescope

noun

: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy

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Because Arecibo collapsed and was destroyed in December 2020, FAST is now the only radio telescope capable of taking on these candidate signals. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026 The project relied on individuals downloading a client program to their home PC designed to parse data passively collected by a 984-foot-wide radio telescope at the now-shuttered Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026 And third, a study published in 2025 proposes a very low-frequency radio telescope, GO-LoW, that also takes advantage of using more mass. Martin Elvis, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026 The breakthrough comes from Professor Guoan Zheng’s lab, where researchers drew inspiration from an unlikely source, the Event Horizon Telescope, the global radio telescope array that captured the first-ever image of a black hole. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for radio telescope

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First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of radio telescope was in 1947

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“Radio telescope.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20telescope. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.

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radio telescope

noun
: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy

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