Radio astronomy has changed how we view the universe, with radio telescopes allowing the retrieval of information beyond visible light by observing radio waves emitted from various astronomical ...

Building your own radio telescope using a kitchen wok offers a way to affordably carry out real astronomy, even under light-polluted skies. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

Radio quiet zones—regions, usually located in remote areas, where ground-based radio transmissions are limited or prohibited—have protected radio astronomy in the past.

The science of radio astronomy is thrilling, but the telescopes look decidedly odd to anyone accustomed to the shiny mirrored telescopes they’ve peered through. However, at the long wavelengths of ...

There is a book on the subject: Amateur Radio Astronomy By John Fielding, ZS5JF, Size 240x174mm, 384 pages, ISBN 9781-9050-8667-2. Report comment. Reply. Scotr says: April 17, 2024 at 12:24 pm ...

Now he’s at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program where he continues to explore the field. Boot camp takes Hernandez to new heights. Hernandez ...

The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has left its mark on the terrestrial landscape: a gigantic white dish that towers into the sky near Effelsberg in the Eifel hills – the 100-metre ...

My career has been spent studying radio astronomy. I care about the “invisible” light with wavelengths far more than visible light – as shown to the far right on the figure above.

Building massive radio telescopes—which today cost anywhere from around $100 million to more than $1 billion—actually began as a cost-sharing measure. In the 1950s, the nascent radio astronomy ...

Until its collapse last year, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico spent six decades tuned to the radio stations of the heavens. There is no plan to rebuild it, and astronomers are in mourning.

It paves the way for the formation of a new joint research laboratory for Radio Astronomy Advanced Instrumentation Research (RAAIR). CETC’s multi-million investment in RAAIR over the next three years ...