Green Bank
About Green Bank
The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, surpassing the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Germany. The Green Bank site was part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) until September 30, 2016. Since October 1, 2016, the telescope has been operated by the independent Green Bank Observatory. The telescope's name honors the late Senator Robert C. Byrd who represented West Virginia and who pushed the funding of the telescope through Congress.
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The Green Bank telescope is unbelievable. It can measure the energy from billions of miles away, equivalent to a single snowflake falling onto the surface of the Earth.
from 400: No Such Thing As A Pope In A Helicopter, 2021-11-19 at 00:10:03 · read transcript
Other times Green Bank came up
Aliens Eleven promising alien signals were reported this year. Unfortunately, they all turned out to be from mobile phones on Earth. This is the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, which listens for radio signals that might indicate signs of intelligence from 692 of the nearest stars to Earth. It turns out, however, that the signals that aliens might send are very similar to those given out by mobile phones.
Merry Fishmas!, 2017-12-25 · listen
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- Hanover · Germany
- Green Valley · United States
Coordinates: 38.4201, -79.8315