But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
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Radio Astronomy has added greatly to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation, considered a relic of the explosion at the beginning of the universe some 18 billion years ago, is one of the most powerful aids in determining these features of the universe.
In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
A radio telescope pointing at the sky receives radiation not only from space, but also from other sources including the ground, the earth's atmosphere, and the components of the radio telescope itself.
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.
My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
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