How to Use radio telescope in a Sentence
radio telescope
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China has the world’s largest radio telescope and the first Moon rocks in 45 years.
—Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That’s where the MeerKAT radio telescope enters the picture.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2017
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Astronomers have used the Arecibo radio telescope to study the cosmos since 1963.
—Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 12 Aug. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The center of our galaxy, imaged by the MeerKAT radio telescope, is full of mystery.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021
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Yet the Arecibo telescope wasn’t just a radio telescope.
—Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2022
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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
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The Parkes radio telescope in Australia has confirmed the finding.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Oct. 2017
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That is as far back as optical and radio telescopes can reach.
—Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Constructing a radio telescope requires a massive amount of space to build the colossal dish.
—Mike Wehner, BGR, 6 May 2021
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But now time has run out for Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
—Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2020
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It’s all designed to work together and control the biggest radio telescope the world has ever seen.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 Apr. 2022
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Like the work being conducted on the hillside here with that giant radio telescope.
—Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
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During five April nights that year, many of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes lent their precious observing hours to the EHT.
—Adam Glanzman, Smithsonian, 19 Nov. 2019
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The collapse stunned many scientists who had relied on what was until recently the largest radio telescope in the world.
—Dánica Coto, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
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Your daily wonder: There is now an operational radio telescope on the far side of the moon, thanks to a joint Dutch-Chinese effort.
—National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2019
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Three miles from the Thompson family home stands a radio telescope that’s wider than two football fields and taller than the Statue of Liberty.
—Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
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In the next decade, the EHT Collaboration—which uses eight telescopes around the world to function as one, huge radio telescope—hopes to add more telescopes to its regime and observe at new frequencies.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
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According to the team, this is the deepest, most sensitive radio image ever compiled by any Australian radio telescope.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
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