70 Years of Telescopes Tuned to Cosmic Radio {Images}
SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-10-22
TOPICS:
Radio Astronomy • Karl Guthe Jansky • Radio Telescope • Bell Labs • Jansky • Astron • Astronomy • Telescope • Technology_internet
[83 diggs @ Space] Radio astronomy began with static. Bell Laboratories wanted to get rid of it and went looking for its causes. With a hand-built radio telescope, Karl Jansky discovered a clear signal of something else amidst the noise from thunderstorms near and f...
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