The Otherworldly Work of West Virginia's Green Bank Radio Telescope

Radio Telescope
Michael Soluri

Radio Astronomy
In operation since 2001, the Green Bank Telescope has been used by astronomers around the world to make a number of significant discoveries about pulsars, interstellar chemistry, and the formation and evolution of galaxies like the Milky Way, out to the most distant reaches of the Universe.

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