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

Radio Telescope
Michael Soluri

Astronomer
Dr. Felix J. "Jay" Lockman, the principal scientist at the Green Bank Telescope, stands inside the receiver room at the focal point of the antenna, nearly 500 feet above the ground. The funnel-shaped object that sticks up through the top of the room collects radio waves from interstellar Hydrogen that have been focused on it by the dish.

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