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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Other radio astronomy measurements have pinpointed our galactic coordinates with considerable precision: the sun is about 26,000 light-years from the center—a bit less than halfway out across the 120,000-light-year-wide disk—and located very close to the exact midplane of the Milky Way.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2025
Self-complementary antennas, which have a nearly constant wide-range frequency, are used for TV reception, wireless broadband, and radio astronomy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2020
By maintaining accurate baselines between satellites, researchers can create large synthetic apertures for high-resolution imaging and astrophysical observations such as very-long-baseline interferometry for radio astronomy.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
Atacama Desert The new observations come from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array radio astronomy site on the Chajnantor plateau in Chile's Atacama desert.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2025
Self-complementary antennas, which have a nearly constant wide-range frequency, are used for TV reception, wireless broadband, and radio astronomy.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2020
By maintaining accurate baselines between satellites, researchers can create large synthetic apertures for high-resolution imaging and astrophysical observations such as very-long-baseline interferometry for radio astronomy.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
Atacama Desert The new observations come from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array radio astronomy site on the Chajnantor plateau in Chile's Atacama desert.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Radio astronomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20astronomy. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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