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Once released into space by a star, coronal mass ejections create a burst of radio waves while passing through the outer stellar atmosphere, called the corona.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
Radio galaxies are useful in this way because radio waves have long enough wavelengths to slip through cosmic gas and dust rather than being absorbed, as happens with other forms of electromagnetic radiation.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Nov. 2025
These are distant galaxies that emit particularly strong radio waves.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Nov. 2025
And use of advanced H-MRS technology – a non-invasive MRI scan that uses the magnetic fields and radio waves to detail the chemical makeup of tissue – could help identify key deficits.
—New Atlas, 12 Nov. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
Radio galaxies are useful in this way because radio waves have long enough wavelengths to slip through cosmic gas and dust rather than being absorbed, as happens with other forms of electromagnetic radiation.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Nov. 2025
These are distant galaxies that emit particularly strong radio waves.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Nov. 2025
And use of advanced H-MRS technology – a non-invasive MRI scan that uses the magnetic fields and radio waves to detail the chemical makeup of tissue – could help identify key deficits.
—New Atlas, 12 Nov. 2025
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“Radio wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20wave. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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radio wave
noun
ra·dio wave
ˈrād-ē-ō-ˌwāv 
: an electromagnetic wave with radio frequency
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