JANUARY 1953

RADIO TELESCOPES--¿As the sky has been plotted in greater and greater detail with radio telescopes of improved resolving power, it has become clear that the regions with the greatest concentrations of stars generate the most intense radio waves. Even in our present state of uncertainty regarding the source of the radio waves, this relationship is of the utmost importance to astronomy. The work needs high resolution, and this requires very large radio telescopes. The new telescope at Jodrell Bank station of the University of Manchester, England, is based on the radio telescope which has been in use there for several years, but it will be much bigger, and it can be trained on any part of the sky.¿

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