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The 300-foot telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia observed cosmic radio sources by riding the Earth turning underneath them, bringing them into its field of view for about 40 seconds. The receiver feeds of the 300-foot were on a small mount that drove against the Earth’s direction of spin, letting them track cosmic radio sources for a few extra minutes of observing time before the spinning Earth dragged the telescope too far out from underneath the source. In this photo, workers are readying that traveling feed for installation.

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

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