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Silent as the Night: Why Radio Astronomy Doesn’t Listen to the Sky

In the 1997 movie Contact, Ellie Arroway is a young radio astronomy scientist played by Jodie Foster. Ellie’s on a mission to discover alien life, and in one famous scene filmed at the Very Large Array, she sits at the edge of the observatory, listening to the radio sounds of the sky with antenna dishes in ...

Troy Oakes

Radio astronomy dishes.