Image: Green Banks - Jansky Antena info
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Description: Plaque next to full-size replica of the first radio telescope, built by Karl Jansky and now at National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Text of the plaque: "Reconstruction of the directional antenna used in the discovery of Radio emission of extraterrestrial origin by Karl Guthe Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories Holmdel, New Jersy, in 1932. Presented to National Radio Astronomy Observatory by Bell Telephone Laboratories 1966".
Author: Jarek Tuszyński
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