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The VLA is more than 40 years old; the Green Bank Telescope, completed in 2001, is more than 20. And NRAO’s latest instrument, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, opened 12 years ago.

12 News got a special tour of the NSF Green Bank Telescope, the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world, located at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.

The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is designed to detect extremely faint radio waves coming from space. Signals from Wi-Fi, cell phones, and other electronic devices can interfere with the telescope ...

They fly directly over the Green Bank Observatory while beaming radio waves into the telescope's most sensitive receivers. "The whole equation changes," De Pree says.

Starlink's home Internet service has come to the National Radio Quiet Zone after a multi-year engineering project that had the goal of minimizing interference with radio telescopes. Starlink ...

The Green Bank Telescope, a 100-meter fully steerable radio telescope, is seen near a farm in the Green Bank Observatory in the US National Radio Quiet Zone. Image: Brendan Smialowski / AFP© ...

Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly vigil, scanning the cosmos for secrets. If intelligent life exists beyond ...

Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: The Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly vigil, scanning the cosmos for secrets. If intelligent life exists beyond ...

A worker cleans bolts along the track for the Green Bank Telescope, a 100-meter fully steerable radio telescope, at the Green Bank Observatory in the US National Radio Quiet Zone, in Green Bank ...

The Green Bank Telescope, the first radio astronomy observatory in the United States, may be the first to detect signs of deep-space alien technology Credit: AFP Radio telescopes like the GBT ...