Ep. 632: Building Images: Optical vs Radio
Astronomy Cast
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Radio Telescopes - What's the Difference in Resolution?
With a single mirrored optical telescope that's a meter across, and you're looking at light that is measured in nano meters, which is ten to the negative nine. That many factors of ten that go into that, from centi to nano im, that is the difference in your resolution. Andif you look like am journal articles, you'll see just these blobs, these these quite mediocre looking blobsthat i'm sure filled with all kinds of really fascinating scientific information. But, but we have a hard time running those niverse to day.
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