radio telescope

noun

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

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Now under construction and expected to be completed in 2028, the array will include thousands of dishes and up to a million low-frequency antennas to create the world’s largest radio telescope. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025 Moving forward, many more ORCs are expected to be found by the Square Kilometre Array, which is a giant radio telescope network based in South Africa and Australia that will come online by the early 2030s. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025 Gravitational lensing helps astronomers detect mystery object A worldwide network of radio telescopes, including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Very Long Baseline Array in Hawaii, helped astronomers detect the mysterious object in question. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025 Citizen science breakthrough The discovery was made by researchers from the University of Mumbai using the RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory citizen science platform, alongside the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), the world’s largest radio telescope at low frequencies. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 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 22 Oct. 2025.

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radio telescope

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

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