Sentences with phrase «radio astronomers wanted»

In the early days of the NRAO, the late 1950s, eager American radio astronomers wanted a giant radio telescope to call their own.

Chang says it would cost about $ 20 million, a tiny fraction of the $ 2 billion radio astronomers want for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) of radio telescopes, which aims to trace large - scale structure by locating individual galaxies.

Not exact matches

Astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, says the unified model «is so simple and elegant, you want it to be true.»