Green Bank Telescope
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope
Category Instruments of Science
Dedicated in 2000, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the most technically advanced single-dish radio telescope in the world. Its 110-meter by 100-meter dish boasts more than two acres of area for collecting faint radio waves from the Universe. Weighing 17 million pounds, the GBT is also one of the world's largest moving structures on land. And since it is located within the National Radio Quiet Zone, the GBT's sensitive receiving system is well protected from radio frequency interference.
The GBT is a leader in the scientific study of pulsars, dense neutron stars that serve as laboratories in which astronomers study the physics of extreme states of matter and enormous magnetic fields. The GBT can also detect the fingerprints of atoms and molecules far into the distant Universe, yielding new knowledge about star formation, the structure and motions of gas in galaxies, and Nature's fundamental constants.
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- Hours Variable, depending on the season - see http://www.gb.nrao.edu/epo/gp/
- Website http://www.gb.nrao.edu
- Address Route 28/92, Green Bank, West Virginia, 24944, United States
- Cost Free
http://www.gb.nrao.edu/epo/gp/directions/gbdirections.pdf
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