radio dish
Parabolic sky listener
A radio dish is a large, bowl-shaped antenna designed to collect and focus radio waves from space.
The curved surface reflects incoming signals to a receiver at the focal point, much like a satellite dish but typically much larger.
Radio dishes are used in astronomy to detect signals from distant stars, galaxies, and other cosmic sources: The radio dish at Arecibo was one of the world's largest until its collapse in 2020.
- antennaBroadcast signal receiver
- satelliteOrbiting celestial body
- space stationOrbiting crewed research facility
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
- parabolicShaped like a conic section
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- astronomy toolstelescope, binoculars, star chart, star map, planetarium
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- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
radio dishbroadcast tower
Structure for sending signals
transmission tower · radio transmitter · broadcast antenna · cell tower · radio mast
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