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In 1928, a young physicist and engineer named Karl Jansky began working at Bell Telephone Laboratories, tasked with investigating any sources of static that could interfere with long-distance radio communication. Cobbling together a system of antennae on a merry-go-round, he successfully found that thunderstorms were annoying in just this way. But there was a small
In the 1930’s Karl Jansky, an engineer and scientist with Bell Telephone Laboratories, was given the task of assessing the interference environment in which planned radio communications networks would have
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array, a sprawling radio astronomy dish network in west-central New Mexico, preps for the next generation.