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A compilation of stories, telescopes, internship resources, and other things radio astronomy.
A blog dedicated to telling the history of radio astronomy: its evolution, its discoveries, and its telescopes
Filtering by Tag: The Sun
Radio astronomy explores the invisible universe. While the field largely focuses on interstellar space, radio astronomy also works closer to home too! In honor of the 2017 total solar eclipse, I've dug into the history of the Sun in the context of radio astronomy.
Read MoreLike his radio astronomer predecessors Jansky and Reber, James Stanley Hey's celestial observations were originally discovered. Hey first observed solar radiation while fighting German communications jams during World War II, and he continued on to detect the first extragalactic radio waves (which were originally dubbed "radio stars").
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