Voice of the Universe: Building the Jodrell Bank Telescope; Revised and Updated Edition

by Bernard Lovell

In this volume the creator and director of Jodrell Bank, the world's largest radio telescope, tells the fascinating story behind the building of this huge telescope. Though the telescope is popularly known for tracking and communicating with man-made satellites, its prime function is the study of the universe by means of radio waves emitted by distatant stars. The radiation received from meteors, the moon, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Milky Way offers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275926796
• ISBN13: 9780275926793
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"