{"id":30125,"date":"2018-01-11T07:33:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30125"},"modified":"2018-01-11T07:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T11:34:32","slug":"thomas-explores-the-depths-of-radio-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/thomas-explores-the-depths-of-radio-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom explores the depths of radio astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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26 meter telescope at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Tom L, who writes:<\/p>\n

I have been curiously surveying uses of radio in different areas of industry and Astronomy came up as a hot topic the last couple of years according to recent Google searches. Radio was a giant popular commercial success in the 1930’s and 1940’s. But Radio Astronomy was still in its infancy with military radar. A Bell Labs engineer (Karl Jansky) accidentally discovered signals coming from an unknown source. He and his mentor figured out that it was coming from the center of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_astronomy<\/a><\/p>\n

Fast forward to today and it looks nothing like the early days. Computer control and very large arrays have made it possible to boost the wide-field resolution massively. We are now able to see molecules in space outside our solar system and filaments connecting star nurseries. Here are just a few recent articles that hint at major news coming from this field of study. If you have a science student interested and has the talent for Astronomy, Radio Astronomy promises to be on a variety of cutting edges of discoveries over the next few decades from local Space Weather, biological search, and how stars form.<\/p>\n