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radioastronomy

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radioastronomy
the branch of astronomy that studies radio frequencies emitted by the sun, planets, and other celestial bodies.
See also: Astronomy


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Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), and the Effelsberg Radio Telescope of the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Germany to determine that a galaxy dubbed UGC 3789 is 160 million light-years from Earth.
We finally have been able to measure black hole and bulge masses in several galaxies seen as they were in the first billion years after the Big Bang, and the evidence suggests that the constant ratio seen nearby may not hold in the early universe," said Fabian Walter of the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Germany.
Bracewell (6) at Stanford University pioneered these techniques in radioastronomy by stripping together the holographic transformations of limited sectors of the heavens as viewed by radiotelescope.
 
 
 
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