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These include offering the radio telescope's remaining socket and cable sections for further study as well as increasing the careful monitoring of aging research facilities to detect deterioration and potential novel failure modes, among others.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
This radio telescope’s primary purpose is to search for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial life.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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
Ordinary suburban houses are filled with electronic devices and equipment that can sometimes emit electromagnetic noise at exactly the frequencies that radio telescopes aim to detect.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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First Known Use
1947, in the meaning defined above
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“Radio telescope.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20telescope. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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radio telescope
noun
: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy
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