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Space
Space
Science
Rahul Rao

Scientists are devising ways to gaze past Earth's radio haze

An illustration of Earth with lots of lines all around, representing signals sent between phone towers and such.

Earth's atmosphere is filled with an intensifying blizzard of radio waves — media broadcasts, mobile phone signals, radar pings, you name it. It's a torrent that's critical for sustaining our world’s civilization — but unfortunately, it's also an impediment for ground-based radio telescopes.

Astronomers who want to catch radio signals from much farther away in the cosmos must see through the ever-noiser haze.

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