Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy – a proposed zone for testing new technologies could head off the problem
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Photo caption: Radio observatories like the Green Bank Telescope are in radio quiet zones that protect them from interference. Photo credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, (NRAO Image Use Policy) CC BY 3.0. Article by , and . The Conversation – March 3, 2023.
Visible light is just one part of the electromagnetic spectrum that astronomers use to study the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope was built to see infrared light, other space telescopes capture X-ray images, and observatories like the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and dozens of other observatories around the world work at radio wavelengths. […]
