radio telescope

noun

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

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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array or ALMA radio telescopes in Chile, Gorski and Murchikova created the most detailed map ever of cold gas around of Sagittarius A* and then removed all of the radio interference from the object. Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 16 June 2026 Gorski and his colleague, Northwestern physics and astronomy professor Elena Murchikova, used five years' worth of extremely deep observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescopes in Chile. Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 June 2026 In contrast, China has placed greater emphasis on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, using the world’s largest radio telescope to look for potential signs of life beyond Earth. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 May 2026 The science fiction film trope of the passionate astronomer monitoring radio telescopes in search of transmissions from an extraterrestrial intelligence, then actually hearing one, seems cliché today after decades of overuse. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 31 May 2026 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

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

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