But not enough bargain hunters have yet stepped forward to secure a future for two of the agency's most iconic telescopes,
the giant radio dishes in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and Green Bank, West Virginia.
Not exact matches
A new Dutch telescope is set to help solve a nagging astrophysical mystery, by automatically scanning the southern skies alongside a
giant array of
radio dishes.
Fewer than two dozen have been identified in the past decade using
giant radio telescopes such as the 1,000 - foot
dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
The Green Bank Telescope, dedicated in 2000, is the largest fully - steerable
radio telescope in the world, with more than two acres of collecting area in its
giant dish.
You have most likely seen the
giant antennas and
radio telescopes, such as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that was featured in the James Bond Movie «Golden Eye» and the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia featured in the movie «
Dish» that look out into interplanetary and deep space for answers.
From the early 1960s at NRAO, we knew we needed an array of
radio telescopes to complement the work of our
giant, single -
dish telescopes.