Recent discoveries in radio astronomy
FEB 01, 1965
The following article is based on an address presented at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Corporate Associates of the American Institute of Physics, which was held at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City on October 1, 1964. Morton S. Roberts is on the staff of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. The Observatory is operated by Associated Universities, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3047181
The application of radio techniques to astronomy has opened an immense new window on the universe. Till relatively recent times, the earthbased astronomer was restricted to an opticalwavelength region ranging over a factor of three. He now has available an additional part of the electromagnetic spectrum whose range in wavelength is more than a factor of one thousand.
© 1965. American Institute of Physics
