The Green Bank Telescope and the National Radio Quiet Zone

From Tom Scott’s YouTube Channel.

Let Tom Scott introduce you to the US National Radio Quiet Zone!

Tucked away in a valley in the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, is this: the Green Bank Radio Telescope, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world.  And there are some rather special rules for the area around it…

For more about the Green Bank Observatory: https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt

Read about the United States National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ) here at Wikipedia.

And yes, we have our own Radio Quiet Zone around the WA’s Square Kilometre Array.

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