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Radio telescope

Meaning in astronomy & space, with examples

nounCommon term

In astronomy & space, radio telescope means: A telescope that collects radio waves from space with a large dish or a set of antennas instead of visible light. It can observe through clouds and during the day.

In Turkish: radyo teleskobu

How it is used

Used in radio astronomy to study cold gas, pulsars, the cosmic microwave background and black holes. Several radio telescopes can be linked into an array that works like one giant instrument.

Example sentences

  1. A network of radio telescopes around the world produced the first black hole image.

  2. Mobile phones near the site can interfere with the radio telescope.

Common collocations

  • radio telescope dish
  • radio telescope array
  • large radio telescope
  • telescopeAn instrument that collects light or other radiation from distant objects with lenses, mirrors or antennas, so that faint and far-away things can be seen and studied.
  • pulsarA rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out beams of radio waves or other radiation, which we see from Earth as very regular pulses, like the beam of a lighthouse.
  • observatoryA building or site with telescopes and instruments for observing the sky. Many large observatories are built on high, dry mountains far from city lights.
  • cosmic microwave backgroundThe faint microwave radiation that fills the whole sky, left over from about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. It is often shortened to CMB.

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