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This is the world’s largest radio telescope.

Author: Tina Berezhnaya

Published: 10 May 2011

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The Pushchino Observatory was set up in 1956.

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Here astrophysicists are searching for pulsars and observing gigantic atoms in faraway galaxies.

Trusses joined by wires rotate after the trajectory of celestial bodies.

The length of the east-west arm of this radio telescope is precisely 1,000 m.

There had also been a second north-south arm, but it stopped being used long ago.

This is the world’s largest radio telescope.

The wires of a radio telescope run in three levels divided by insulators.

The first constructions emerged back in the 1950s in a completely barren zone.

Waste bins near the observatory’s workshops.

The observatory is a venue where lots of experiments are carried out.

This RT-22 dish is the first radio location set on the premises of the Pushchino Observatory.

The radio telescopes in Pushchino are part of a global space exploration project.

The dish of the radio telescope is not made of several parts – it is a solid metal structure.

It operates in the meter band of wavelengths. It does not pick up FM radio signals, though :o)

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