radio astronomy
noun
: astronomy dealing with radio waves received from outside the earth's atmosphere
radio astronomer
noun
radio astronomical
adjective
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Rising out of the frozen plateau is the South Pole Telescope, a key tool for radio astronomy.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Using the James Webb Space Telescope and a radio astronomy observatory in Chile, the first specks of planet-forming material were detected around a star called HOPS-315, about 1,300 light-years from the solar system.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Now cutting-edge radio astronomy is helping cosmologists peer back in time to the very start of the universe, when only Hula-Hooping particles existed.
—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Unfortunately, the cores of galaxies are obscured by giant, diffuse clouds of gas and dust, which leave us no hope of seeing M87* with visible light or at the very long wavelengths typically used in radio astronomy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2020
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Using the James Webb Space Telescope and a radio astronomy observatory in Chile, the first specks of planet-forming material were detected around a star called HOPS-315, about 1,300 light-years from the solar system.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Now cutting-edge radio astronomy is helping cosmologists peer back in time to the very start of the universe, when only Hula-Hooping particles existed.
—Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Unfortunately, the cores of galaxies are obscured by giant, diffuse clouds of gas and dust, which leave us no hope of seeing M87* with visible light or at the very long wavelengths typically used in radio astronomy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2020
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“Radio astronomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20astronomy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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