Ep 65: Quasars
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In 1969, man first walked on the moon and we saw these images. Of course they needed to be beamed to the earth from the moon, but at that time the United States was not facing the moon. So what happened? Well this telescope collected the signal. It is called the Parks Radio Telescope and it is in New South Wales Australia. The dish found a radio source which had already been designated 3C273 seven years earlier. This allowed astronomers to inform other astronomers at Mount Palomar to use their 200 inch telescope to look for an optical counterpart.
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