Radio telescope. Illustration of a radio telescope at night with its dish pointed towards the stars. The telescope's dish reflects incoming radio waves and concentrates them at a single point. A receiver (the black disk) at this position collects the signals and passes them to instruments for analysis. Radio telescopes need a large dish in order to focus the radio waves which have a wavelength of between 1 millimetre and more than 1 kilometre. Radio astronomy is useful because radio waves,unlike light,are not absorbed by the clouds of gas and dust which lie between stars. Astronomical radio sources include quasars,background radiation and galactic cores | |
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