RADIO TELESCOPES

By: Bernice Hanlon & Daniel Hoang

Inventor The inventor of the radio telescope is Grote Reber. He was

born in Wheaton, Illinois, in 1911. As an adult he was an American engineer and amateur astronomer.

After three years of working with his radio telescope, Grote Reber wrote a report concluding that the Milky Way actually gives off radio raves. He went on to lead experimental microwave research in Washington D.C.

What are they for?

We use radio telescopes to naturally occuring light from stars, galaxies, black holes, and other astronomical objects. We can also use them to transmit and reflect radio light off of planetary bodies in our solar system.

How it works

Where they are located? Often built away from largley populated

areas. To avoid electromagnetic interference from electronics

Radio telescopes aren't much bothered by atmospheric turbulence. But some frequencies are bothered by water in the air.