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The Birth of Radio Astronomy
Lecture no. 3 from the course: Radio Astronomy: Observing the Invisible Universe
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Taught by Professor Felix J. Lockman | 30 min | Categories: Science
When young engineer Karl Jansky was tasked to find natural radio sources that could interfere with commercial transatlantic radio communications, radio astronomy was born. His work, and that of backyard astronomer Grote Reber, led to the discovery of synchrotron radiation. But it would be decades before scientists understood what these earliest radio astronomers had detected-cosmic rays and magnet...
25 Lectures
1
Radio Astronomy and the Invisible Universe
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of 31 min
2
Thermal Radio Emission: The Planets
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of 29 min
3
The Birth of Radio Astronomy
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of 30 min
4
The Discovery of Interstellar Hydrogen
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of 27 min
5
Radio Telescopes and How They Work
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of 34 min
6
Mapping the Hydrogen Sky
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of 31 min
7
Tour of the Green Bank Observatory
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of 29 min
8
Tour of the Green Bank Telescope
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of 31 min
9
Hydrogen and the Structure of Galaxies
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of 32 min
10
Pulsars: Clocks in Space
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of 30 min
11
Pulsars and Gravity
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of 31 min
12
Pulsars and the 300-Foot Telescope
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of 32 min
13
The Big Bang: The Oldest Radio Waves
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of 31 min
14
H II Regions and the Birth of Stars
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of 31 min
15
Supernovas and the Death of Stars
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of 32 min
16
Radio Stars and Early Interferometers
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of 30 min
17
Radio Source Counts
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of 31 min
18
Active Galactic Nuclei and the VLA
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of 31 min
19
A Telescope as Big as the Earth
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of 31 min
20
Galaxies and Their Gas
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of 31 min
21
Interstellar Molecular Clouds
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of 32 min
22
Star Formation and ALMA
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of 33 min
23
Interstellar Chemistry and Life
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of 33 min
24
The Future of Radio Astronomy
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of 37 min
25
Three New Discoveries
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of 13 min
