: a radio receiver-antenna combination used for observation in radio astronomy
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Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned new insights into when and where the celestial object formed.—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 1 May 2026 So, Quijano's team used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) — a network of giant radio telescopes spanning the United States — to resolve young stars in the Orion Molecular Complex.—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026 Using data from two international networks of radio telescopes, researchers pinned down the energetics of jets erupting from a black hole in a system called Cygnus X-1, some 7,200 light-years from Earth.—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026 Institute searches for extraterrestrial life Research teams at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have for years famously used radio telescopes to search for signals in outer space that could originate from intelligent life beyond our world.—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 11 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for radio telescope