How to Use radio telescope in a Sentence

radio telescope

noun
  • China has the world’s largest radio telescope and the first Moon rocks in 45 years.
    Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • But one of the few places rich in helium-3 on the Moon is found in one of the most likely places to put a far-side, Dark Ages radio telescope.
    Martin Elvis, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • That’s where the MeerKAT radio telescope enters the picture.
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2017
  • Astronomers have used the Arecibo radio telescope to study the cosmos since 1963.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 12 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • One of these new messages will be sent from the world’s largest radio telescope, in China, sometime in 2023.
    Chris Impey, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The transmitter is not a dish, like a radio telescope in reverse.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
  • 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
  • The idea here is that NASA wouldn’t need to build the dish itself when constructing a lunar radio telescope.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 6 May 2021
  • The center of our galaxy, imaged by the MeerKAT radio telescope, is full of mystery.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Yet the Arecibo telescope wasn’t just a radio telescope.
    Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 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
  • The Parkes radio telescope in Australia has confirmed the finding.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
  • That is as far back as optical and radio telescopes can reach.
    Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • One of the main characters is involved in research at a radio telescope.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The construction of a world-class radio telescope in Puerto Rico was, in some ways, an accident of the Cold War.
    Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Despite its age and the arrival of newer radio telescopes, astronomers say the GMRT still has a role to play in research.
    Bysanjay Kumar, science.org, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Constructing a radio telescope requires a massive amount of space to build the colossal dish.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 6 May 2021
  • Rodríguez agrees that more radio telescopes should tune in to Orion’s station.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Astronomers could, in just the next few years, start to solve the problem in a remarkable way: Putting radio telescopes on the far side of the moon, where the moon’s mass would block out all that electronic noise.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But now time has run out for Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • It’s all designed to work together and control the biggest radio telescope the world has ever seen.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Like the work being conducted on the hillside here with that giant radio telescope.
    Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • Old-school radios convert currents into sound, but radio telescopes record the current to construct a picture of deep space.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024

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