Examples of radio telescope in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Every year since Arecibo’s completion, in 1963, hundreds of researchers from around the world had taken turns pointing the radio telescope toward the sky to glean the secrets of the universe. — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, "The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope," 29 Mar. 2021 In 1992, Alexander Wolszczan and Dale Frail, using the Arecibo Observatory’s radio telescope, discovered the first planets outside of our solar system orbiting a pulsar in the Virgo system. — Meghan Herbst, Wired, "Can Alien Smog Lead Us to Extraterrestrial Civilizations?," 4 Mar. 2021 The picture of the galaxy, two billion light years away, was taken with the combined help of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Array radio telescope. — Georgia Garvey, chicagotribune.com, "Column: We’re all just particles bouncing off one another, tied together by a very big universe," 19 Apr. 2021 The construction of a world-class radio telescope in Puerto Rico was, in some ways, an accident of the Cold War. — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, "The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope," 29 Mar. 2021 At the Parkes Observatory in Australia, the team uses a 210-foot-wide radio telescope to study Proxima Centauri. — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, "Astronomers Discover Mysterious Radio Signal From Proxima Centauri," 22 Dec. 2020 China has the world’s largest radio telescope and the first Moon rocks in 45 years. — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, "China’s premier astronomy and planetary resources lure foreign collaborators," 1 Apr. 2021 At the time, the largest radio telescope, near Manchester, England, had a diameter of two hundred and fifty feet; Arecibo’s telescope would be a thousand feet wide, dwarfing every other such instrument in use. — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, "The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope," 29 Mar. 2021 In the new study, Miller-Jones and his colleagues analyzed observations of Cygnus X-1 from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a giant radio telescope made of 10 dishes scattered across the U.S. — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, "Astronomers Just Upsized an Iconic Black Hole," 24 Feb. 2021

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