How do you read an image created by a radio telescope?
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What do the colors mean? And the shapes?
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What do the colors mean? And the shapes?
What do you call an image created by a radio telescope?
June 2nd, 2010 at 8:23 am
Radio telescopes operate at lower frequencies than optical telescopes, but the operation is similar. The colors and shapes are added by researchers to bring out various things that they might be looking for. They can be increase of the radio signal, change of frequencies, spectral response of certain chemicals or whatever else the researchers might be looking for. Nyx