Definition of radio telescope
: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy
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In April 2017, the Event Horizon team connected radio telescopes at multiple locations across the world — as far-flung as Hawaii and the South Pole — and instructing them all to look toward Sagittarius A for a few days.
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Bowman leads a small group of five astronomers who built and deployed a radio telescope in remote western Australia.
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An ever-increasing number of satellites broadcast signals from the sky that radio telescopes pick up.
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Using a large antenna from NASA’s Deep Space Network of radio telescopes tuned in to a special transponder on Juno provided by the Italian Space Agency, the team repeatedly searched for any unexplained anomalies in the spacecraft’s trajectory.
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Now, researchers have looked at measurements of those signals as well as 10 new bursts detected in August at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and confirmed by the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, according to a press release.
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Last year, work completed on China’s enormous FAST radio telescope, the world’s largest.
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As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal.
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This week, researchers with the Breakthrough Listen initiative announced that a radio telescope will probe 'Oumuamua for signs of technology.
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First Known Use of radio telescope
1947
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Definition of radio telescope for English Language Learners
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: a piece of equipment that receives radio waves from space and that is used for finding stars and other objects
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