How to Use radio telescope in a Sentence

radio telescope

noun
  • Astronomers want to build radio telescopes on the far side.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019
  • That is as far back as optical and radio telescopes can reach.
    Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Could there be a better, even lonelier place to put a radio telescope?
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Far away in Spain, a radio telescope beamed the same words into the heavens.
    James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The transmitter is not a dish, like a radio telescope in reverse.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
  • For years, as radio telescopes scanned the sky, astronomers have hoped to glimpse signs of the first stars in the universe.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2018
  • China has the world’s largest radio telescope and the first Moon rocks in 45 years.
    Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
  • These jets can be seen at great distances by radio telescopes and are a common sight in the local universe.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The quiet zone is needed to help radio telescopes detect the faintest signals from deep space.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024
  • One of the main characters is involved in research at a radio telescope.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • To a radio telescope on Earth, one of these dead stars is perceived as a pulse each time its beam swings by our planet.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • Rodríguez agrees that more radio telescopes should tune in to Orion’s station.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • It was made using data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the world, showing swirling light and gas.
    Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The world’s most sensitive radio telescope array is set to be built in the Nevada desert.
    Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 21 June 2026
  • Constructing a radio telescope requires a massive amount of space to build the colossal dish.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 6 May 2021
  • Like the work being conducted on the hillside here with that giant radio telescope.
    Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • The image of the black hole, which is about 6 billion times the mass of our sun, was gathered by eight radio telescopes from around the world.
    Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • It’s all designed to work together and control the biggest radio telescope the world has ever seen.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Apr. 2022
  • For the past two years, the most powerful radio telescope in the world has been located in China.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2018
  • For decades, that's been a mystery, but it may have finally been solved by a group of astronomers using the world’s largest radio telescope.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The Parkes radio telescope in Australia has confirmed the finding.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But now time has run out for Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The reason for Slosar’s enthusiasm is that a radio telescope on the moon could do things none on Earth can.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The collapse stunned many scientists who had relied on what was until recently the largest radio telescope in the world.
    Dánica Coto, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The second is a billion-dollar class mission to put a basic radio telescope on the surface of the Moon.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 18 July 2019
  • But since the radio telescope looks at a lot of the sky at once, FRBs should also pop up during the mapping.
    Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
  • Some even hope to build a radio telescope there, shielded from the radio noise of Earth, to study the most ancient reaches of the universe.
    Jay Bennett, Smithsonian, 19 July 2019
  • For example, signals sent from a radio telescope on the far side of the moon will require relay satellites to reach Earth.
    Sven Bilén, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2020
  • In late August, footage emerged captured by a drone slamming into the 50-year-old radio telescope.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And overall there are almost as many operational radio telescopes as there are visible-light ones.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2026

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