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Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory

Ground-Based Radio and Millimeter Observatories

The University of Cambridge's radio astronomy field station near Cambridge, England, whose One-Mile and later arrays developed under Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish pioneered the aperture-synthesis imaging technique that underlies most modern radio telescopes. Antony Hewish and his student Jocelyn Bell Burnell used its instruments there to discover the first pulsar in 1967.

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Radio 1
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from 1957 2
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  • Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Wikipedia - lead section, observing band (radio)
    The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is located near Cambridge, UK and is home to a number of the largest and most advanced aperture synthesis radio telescopes in the world, including the One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager.
  • Article text, operational-start-year
    was opened by Sir Edward Victor Appleton on 25 July 1957
  • In Group: Radio and Millimetre Interferometer Arrays, Lead sentence
    The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is located near Cambridge, UK and is home to a number of the largest and most advanced aperture synthesis radio telescopes in the world, including the One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager.
  • Operated By: University of Cambridge, Article text: operator
    It was founded by the University of Cambridge and is part of the Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratories, Astrophysics Department. == History == Radio interferometry started in
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