Making Contact - Green Bank Telescope
by Patricia Januszkiewicz
Title
Making Contact - Green Bank Telescope
Artist
Patricia Januszkiewicz
Medium
Photograph - Photo Art
Description
Green Bank Telescope - National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Green Bank, West Virginia ...
Working both day and night this telescope helps us learn about
stars, galaxies, and other objects in the Universe by collecting the
radio waves they emit.
It weighs 17 million lbs and is 485 ft tall ..
Despite its weight, the GBT can be pointed with an accuracy of
one arcsecond. That's equivalent to the width of a human hair
seen from 66 feet away.
The telescope only receives signals from space,
never sends them.
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August 27th, 2013
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Comments (1)
Kellice Swaggerty
Patricia, this has such impact! I also enjoyed what I learned from your informative description. V
Patricia Januszkiewicz replied:
Thank you so much Kellice! so glad you read the description .. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is such an interesting place ... patricia