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This website contains information on radio astronomy, the NRAO, how telescopes work, the history and discovery of radio astronomy, and the radio communication process. This website has activites like "Make your own Radio Image", and visual aids on topics such as: free-free emission, spectral lines, synchrotron emission, masers, and how radio communication works. The site is also a resource for blackbody radiation, the Cosmic Microwave Backround, and the mechanisms of radio wave emission.

https://public.nrao.edu/radio-astronomy/the-science-of-radio-astro...

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Instrumentation	- Lower Undergraduate - Informal Education - Upper Undergraduate	- Reference Material

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: Has a copyright or other licensing restriction.
Keywords:: CMB, NRAO, Radio lines, blackbody radiation, cosmic microwave background, masers, spectral lines, synchrotron emission
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created December 1, 2003 by Patricia Monahan
Record Updated:: August 19, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Physics To Go

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National Radio Astronomy Observatory. What is Radio Astronomy?. Charlottesville: National Radio Astronomy Observatory. https://public.nrao.edu/radio-astronomy/the-science-of-radio-astronomy/ (accessed 2 May 2025).

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