The Listeners

Radio Telescopes as the Stethoscope Observing the Universe

When they [radio astronomers] grew weary at their electronic listening posts. When their eyes grew dim with looking at unrevealing dials and studying uneventful graphs, they could step outside their concrete cells and renew their dull spirits in communion with the giant mechanism they commanded, the silent, sensing…

May 31, 2012 1

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