Where No Radio Telescope Has Gone Before

Top of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 878, Segment 3

Aug 15, 2018 • 15m

Guests: Brian Jeffs, PhD, Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Brigham Young University, and Karl Warnick, PhD, Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Brigham Young University. There is giant satellite dish as wide as three football fields set into a jungle-covered mountain in Puerto Rico. But it’s not for TV. It’s for receiving signals from deep space - maybe from extraterrestrials, but more likely from celestial objects can help us understand how our universe formed.

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