How to Use radio astronomy in a Sentence

radio astronomy

noun
  • Jill Tarter came in and talked to us about radio astronomy.
    Vulture, 29 June 2022
  • But it’s not just radio astronomy that’s doing the heavy lifting.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The greatest mystery of modern radio astronomy comes down to just three letters: FRB.
    Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
  • The project team is working to improve the initial design, envisioning it as a workhorse of radio astronomy for many years to come.
    Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Technically, the far side of the moon is already being used for radio astronomy.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Earth is also full of its own radio emissions that can prevent faint signals from being tracked by radio astronomy.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 May 2021
  • The loss of Arecibo is a major blow for the radio astronomy community and leaves a gaping hole in capabilities.
    Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Earth was never a particularly great place to do any kind of radio astronomy due to our thick atmosphere blocking a large portion of the radio spectrum.
    Daniel Oberhaus Supercluster, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Satellites also pose a challenge for radio astronomy, in which images are created with radio waves rather than light.
    Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
  • After Heidmann’s death in 2000, Maccone took up the cause of preserving the lunar farside for radio astronomy.
    Wired, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The far side of the moon doesn’t have the same ionosphere issues and comes shielded from Earth’s radio emissions and the sun, offering the chance for sensitive radio astronomy signals unlike anywhere else in the near-Earth space environment.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The frequency band used by Starlink is adjacent to a band reserved for radio astronomy and any spillover could impact observations.
    Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
  • This unprecedented picture of one of the most mysterious objects in all of physics is the latest in a long line of discoveries made possible by radio astronomy.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Dishes used in radio astronomy are often built in remote locations far from cell towers and radio stations.
    Shannon Hall, New York Times, 1 June 2019
  • In the 57 years since its construction, the remote observatory has been a primary world center for radio astronomy.
    Mary Fillmore, Wired, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Other researchers doing similar work think the find is a great example of why radio astronomy is getting more attention.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Not everyone, however, is convinced that the assumptions of radio astronomy make sense.
    Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Drake did his PhD in radio astronomy, and his academic career continued with astronomy as a focus.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Satellites are already interfering with radio astronomy, which studies solar activity, black holes, pulsars, star formation and the echoes of the Big Bang.
    Michael Byers and Aaron Boley, Twin Cities, 26 Dec. 2019
  • As part of her doctoral work in radio astronomy, Jocelyn Bell Burnell built a radio telescope by hand — pounding posts, stringing wire, attaching metal.
    Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
  • The spacecraft’s spectrometer, which will make radio astronomy observations, will test this idea.
    Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
  • In late May, three radio astronomy observatories detected a strange signal coming from around Mars.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • The loss of Arecibo’s unique broadcast capabilities and frequency range—not to mention its social role as a hub of scientific activity—will hamstring radio astronomy for years to come.
    Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The massive radio dish has been at the forefront of atmospheric science, radio astronomy, and planetary radar capability for decades.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
  • But like radio astronomy, optical SETI isn’t foolproof.
    Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
  • For nearly 60 years Arecibo has been a mainstay of radio astronomy, atmospheric research, and planetary science.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Forty years later, a University of Michigan professor did, the late Frederick Haddock, a pioneer in radio astronomy.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2018
  • Niday was heading out on patrol of Green Bank, West Virginia, to keep tabs on radio noise that might interfere with the half-dozen giant, dish-shaped telescopes looming behind us at the nation’s oldest federal radio astronomy observatory.
    Stephen Kurczy, Wired, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Further, radio astronomy is a field with several cases of unexplained anomalous signals.
    Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
  • That limits the company’s ability to briefly switch off satellites while passing over locations with radio astronomy facilities, because customers would lose service, too.
    New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020

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