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Researchers utilized a fast radio burst-hunting machine called CHIME, or the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment radio telescope, to uncover both bursts.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
The radio telescope array in Australia being used is capable of looking for signs of life in star systems both in our Milky Way galaxy and in 2,800 galaxies beyond.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
The data that went into constructing those images came from seven radio telescopes spread over the globe, including the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, in Hawaii (left).
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2020
As radio telescopes like MeerKAT get more sensitive, more and more GRGs are being discovered.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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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 16 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
radio telescope
noun
: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy
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