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radio telescope

NOUN
astronomical telescope
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Argentina’s recent decision to pause a joint Chinese effort to construct a large radio telescope is a hopeful sign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The desert's extreme aridity makes it one of the clearest places on Earth to view the night sky and is famous for being home to the largest radio telescope in the world.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

To probe the SMC’s gas they turned to the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a radio telescope made up of 36 dishes each 12 meters in diameter.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 29, 2023

Perhaps our remote descendants will call it the constellation of the radio telescope— although I suspect a million years from now the radio telescope will have become more obsolete than the stone spear is now.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan



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