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You Can Build a Home Radio Telescope to Detect Clouds of Hydrogen in the Milky Way


If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish antennas such as the Very Large Array. What you likely don't imagine is something that resembles a TV dish in your neighbor's backyard.

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