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Brown University Filters Noise, Safeguards Radio Astronomy

2/22/2025

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  • US researchers at Brown University have made a groundbreaking leap in radio astronomy by creating methods to filter out human-made radio noise from space signals. Their discovery of a television signal bouncing off an airplane in Australia’s Murchison Widefield Array highlights the urgency of this innovation, which promises to safeguard precious astronomical data from the growing threat of satellite interference.