radio telescope

IPA: rˈeɪdioʊtˈɛɫʌskoʊp

(astronomy) A device for observing astronomical sources of radio waves, normally having one or more large parabolic dishes.

Examples of "radio-telescope" in Sentences

The SETI@homeprojectisrunning out of radio-telescope data.
A radio-telescope on the far side of the moon might be especially useful.
S@H passively collects radio-telescope data in bulk by piggybacking on more mainstream radio astronomy projects.
Study for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the next generation radio-telescope; membership of the European Molecular Biology
For observation of exceedingly small sources it is, however, no longer possible to build a single radio-telescope of sufficient size.
The artist's concept also includes a new spiral arm, called the "Far-3 kiloparsec arm," discovered via a radio-telescope survey of gas in the Milky Way.
It is being undertaken by the National Radio-Astronomy Observatory and consists of carefully directed listening by radio-telescope for signs of intelligent broadcasts originating outside Earth.
Its most important effect may be the adrenaline it has generated this week among the planetary astronomers tracking it through NASA's Deep Space Network antennas, the Arecibo radio-telescope in Puerto Rico and hundreds of telescopes world-wide.
These include Lake Baikal, Russia, home of the Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope; Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile, site of some of the world's largest visible and infrared telescopes; the MeerKAT radio-telescope array in South Africa's Karoo desert; and the IceCube neutrino telescope in Antarctica.