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What is "Quiet Skies?"
The Quiet Skies Project will introduce middle/high school students
to radio astronomy through an inquiry-based research project to measure
radio frequency interference in your community.
Learn about pulsars, star forming regions, and our Milky Way as you
determine if YOUR location is a good one for radio astronomy...
Find all the classic Quiet Skies activities. Get to
know our vast universe by exploring its planets,
galaxies, comets, black holes, and more...
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The graph above shows the tiny signal the
Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope received from the Huygens
probe as it descended through Titan's atmosphere in January 2005.
This signal was equal in strength to that of your cell phone!
Radio frequency interference (RFI) jeopardizes our ability to detect
such weak signals from space. That is why the search for quiet skies
is so important!
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