Definition of radio telescope
: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy
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For the past two years, the most powerful radio telescope in the world has been located in China.
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To learn more, the team periodically monitored the repeater across several months using two of the world’s largest radio telescopes, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
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To understand glitches, a team of astronomers arranged to track the Vela pulsar for a period of three years using two radio telescopes (the Mount Pleasant observatory in Tasmania and the Ceduna Observatory on the Australian continent).
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Now, a team of astronomers has taken another look using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a collection of 64 radio telescopes in Chile, in 2016 and 2017.
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Milner’s money gives Siemion at Berkeley the means to purchase blocks of expensive observing time on some of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world—from West Virginia to China.
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More answers should come soon, via new wide-field radio telescopes now coming online that should excel at detecting more FRBs, pinpointing their cosmic origins and charting their possible repetitions.
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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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First Known Use of radio telescope
1947
RADIO TELESCOPE Defined for English Language Learners
radio telescope
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
Learn More about radio telescope
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Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about radio telescope
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