The UK-born scientist was best known as a cornerstone of radio telescope development.
ENGADGET: Radio astronomy pioneer Sir Bernard Lovell dies at 98 Alt
The ambition of astronomical project Alma, the largest-ever international radio telescope venture, is no small feat.
It was rededicated the Lovell Radio Telescope in 1987 to mark 30 years of operation.
Another team, using a radio telescope in Spain, has measured Eris to be some 700km larger than Pluto.
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Dr Carlstrom and his colleagues propose building an eight-metre-diameter radio telescope at the South Pole to search for such cold spots.
Another complication arose in May, when South Africa won rights to host a radio telescope in the same area where Shell wants to frack.
With the launch of the RadioAstron telescope on board a Zenit-2SB rocket this morning, Russia has embarked on the first stage of a plan to create the largest radio telescope yet.
The idea that the surface of Mercury has ice has been kicking around since the 1970s, and radio telescope images in 1991 showed some signs that were consistent with there being water ice on the surface.
That would give it a resolution of a few thousandths of an arc-second enough, were this an optical rather than a radio telescope, to see a boulder just a few metres across on the surface of the moon.
Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
While he wasn't the first to leap into the field, he established the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory to study cosmic rays in 1945 and organized the construction of what would ultimately be called the Lovell Telescope -- a radio telescope so large and useful that it's still the third-largest steerable example in the world, 55 years after it was first put into action.
ENGADGET: Radio astronomy pioneer Sir Bernard Lovell dies at 98 Alt
Covering around half of the universe's light spectrum, between infrared and radio waves, the new telescope should be able to detect distant planets, black holes and other intergalactic notables.
The telescope and his other contributions to radio astronomy led to him being knighted in 1961.
Merlin's images in the radio region of the spectrum are of comparable quality to those of the Hubble Space Telescope observing optically.
In addition to its use as a single instrument, the telescope is a key element of the UK's Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (Merlin) high-resolution radio-imaging array.
It's been 50 years since Philip Morrison and Guiseppe Cocconi published their seminal scientific paper on SETI in the journal Nature, and since Frank Drake first used the Tatel telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, to attempt to detect any radio signals from technologies he thought could be orbiting the nearby stars of Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani.
The telescope, which is due to be completed by 2012, will consist of 66 radio antennae spread across the Llano de Chajnantor plateau, 5, 000 meters above sea level.
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