radio 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

Experts analysed more than 100 star-forming galaxies in the distant universe using the world's largest radio telescope, known as ALMA, located in Chile's Atacama desert.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 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

This was the assumption underlying a message that was broadcast into space by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton