Sep 4

Optical Telescopes, Radio and X: main principles and differences – Part TWO – Radio telescopes

Radio astronomy is a relatively young science compared to optical astronomy. It found its early developments in the 1930s, over 300 years after the first observations in the visible spectrum. It was Karl Jansky, a researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1931, who, using an array of antennas over 30 meters in length, recorded radiation […]