Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, and a Quasar-Spangled Universe: The Discoveries of the Very Large Array Telescope

by Karen Taschek

Book Overview

In 1931, Karl Jansky was hired by AT&T to search for sources of static that might interfere with radio waves for transatlantic communications. Jansky identified static from thunderstorms and random radio noise from devices on Earth, but he also found a radio hiss from the Milky Way galaxy. After World War II, astronomers constructed more radio telescopes with greater sensitivity to faint radio signals from space. In the 1970s, the National Radio Astronomy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826332110
• ISBN13: 9780826332110
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher