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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
radioastronomy
Definition: The study of the radio-frequency radiation emitted by celestial bodies. This branch of astronomy began in 1932 when a US engineer, Karl Jansky (1905-40), first detected radio waves from outside the earth's atmosphere.
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